English Proverb or Saying Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

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.

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

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

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

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

Dr. Rice went well beyond offering a helping hand - she went so far as to shed tears and share hugs with those who, in a matter of just a few hours, had lost everything to the rising floodwaters.

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

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

None knows the weight of another's burden.

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

I could only try to comfort the women that I came face-to-face with. I was really moved by how much they wanted to talk, how much they needed to be comforted, and how happy they were that we were there.

When you're sick, nobody takes care of you like your mom.

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

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

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

All you'd have to do is get a sad look, and he'd try to do something for you.