“If sympathy was all it took to clean up shit, I'd have 50 times as much sympathy as anybody else”

“It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.”

“If you are looking for sympathy, it's betweem shit and syphillis in the dictionary.”

“If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”

“Are you looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis”

“Up to the present man has hardly cultivated sympathy at all. He has merely sympathy with pain, and sympathy with pain is not the highest form of sympathy. All sympathy is fine, but sympathy with suffering is the least fine mode. It is tainted with egotism. It is apt to become morbid. There is in it a certain element of terror for our own safety. We become afraid that we ourselves might be as the leper or as the blind, and that no man would have care of us. It is curiously limiting, too. One should sympathise with the entirety of life, not with life's sores and maladies merely, but with life's joy and beauty and energy and health and freedom.”