Oh, poor, poor fellow!' said Mrs. Elliot with a remorse that was sincere, though her congratulations would not have been.
E.M. ForsterInnate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.
Thomas MannTags: art wealth beauty capitalism creativity ignorance sympathy subjectivity bias bourgeois egalitarianism
There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime.
Alexandre DumasTags: sorrow sympathy relationship alexandre-dumas the-count-of-monte-cristo
George's hand lifted and fell away again. It seemed an insult to imply that anything so small as a touch could stop the raw feeling in Sir Stephen's suddenly dark and haunted eyes.
Mette Ivie HarrisonTags: hesitation sympathy comfort embarrassment undone
Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
E.M. ForsterTags: science advice sympathy comfort
She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly believed I did not.
Anne BrontëDarkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels.
Jeanette WintersonTags: darkness light weakness sympathy angels
Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension.
--"Wanda
Tags: women weakness sympathy comprehension
Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he’d tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied.
Charlaine HarrisTags: manners death sympathy ettiquette
Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate --- with vindictive antipathy. It is cruel --- she cannot help being mad.
Charlotte BrontëTags: madness sympathy female-identification
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