William Arthur Ward Quotes

Care draws on care, woe comforts woe again, Sorrow breeds sorrow, on grief brings forth twain.

That this is the source of our fellow-feeling for the misery of others, that it is by changing places in fancy with the sufferer, that we come either to conceive or to be affected by what he feels, may be demonstrated by many obvious observations, if it should not be thought sufficiently evident of itself. When we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall upon the leg or arm of another person, we naturally shrink and draw back our own leg or our own arm; and when it does fall, we feel it in some measure, and are hurt by it as well as the sufferer.

Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.

You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.

For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only.

People in grief need someone to walk with them without judging them.

I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached. She needed to have someone who understood what was happening in her mind.

People aren't very good at other people's pain.

When I see people sad, I'm sad.

Someone feeling wronged is like someone feeling thirsty. Don’t tell them they aren’t. Sit with them and have a drink.

Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.

Eleonora Duse said, "Tell me about Deirdre and Patrick," and made me repeat to her all their little sayings and ways, and show her their photos, which she kissed and cried over. She never said "Cease to grieve", but she grieved with me, and, for the first time since their death, I felt I was not alone.

Have consideration for wounded feelings.

You'll never get to a person's soul until you understand their hurts.

Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.

Empathy doesn't require that we have the exact same experiences as the person sharing their story with us...Empathy is connecting with the emotion that someone is experiencing, not the event or the circumstance.

I cannot worry much about your sins and miseries when I have so many of my own. I can only love you all, poor fellow travellers, fellow sufferers. I do not want to add one least straw to the burden you already carry.

Empathetic listening is an awesome medication for the hurting heart.

Now that another is suffering pain at thy hand, trust not that thy heart shall be exempt from affliction.

In your heart must well that sympathy which soothes away all pains from the hearts of others.

In all disappointments sympathy is a great balm.

consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.

If the people who hurt us have anger or desperation within them then they suffer. When you see that someone suffers, you might be motivated by a desire to help him not to suffer anymore.

It hurts to see anybody in pain, if you've got any kind of heart.

When someone you love is hurting, if it was possible, you'd want to take their pain for them. But do I really want cramps and sore boobs?