my heart bleeds for you

1. I don't feel at all sorry for you, I don't sympathize, as in You only got a five percent raise? My heart bleeds for you. Originating in the late 1300s, this hyperbolic expression of sympathy has been used ironically since the mid-1700s.

Example Sentences

My heart bleeds for you and the other families!

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“My heart bleeds for you,” Dix replied.

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It's sung to the tune 'My Heart Bleeds for You' played on the worlds smallest violin. ow4744 Mar 24th 2012 2:07 GMT "austerity measures are likely to make economic conditions worse while raising very little new revenue" As a British reader, I am getting increasingly frustrated by the Economist's position on austerity - why is it good for Britain but nowhere else?

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It's sung to the tune 'My Heart Bleeds for You' played on the worlds smallest violin.

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If you could know how I reverence your sorrow, how my heart bleeds for you—O pardon me—if you could see my heart, you would see there a devotion, a reverence, such as angels feel in heaven.

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