Vicki Baum Quotes

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.

The dew of compassion is a tear.

I'm not looking for sympathy at all.

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

I am disposed to be thus particular from the interest you take in our welfare and from the entire confidence I have in your knowing, that you will be sympathetic with us in our misfortunes.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.

Sympathy butters no parsnips.

What's interesting to me is that people engage survivors from a place of pity all the time - a place of sympathy.

Nothing is so healing as the human touch.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort.

He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.

You don't want to diminish anybody's pain and suffering.

Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy.

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.

There's no text that can replace a loving touch when someone we love is hurting.

I say let's respond as best we can to the victims and their families.

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.