my heart bleeds for you

Idioms

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

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Remembering your kindness to me, my heart bleeds for you.

From For The Admiral by Marx, W.J.

Your intellect is touched!—I am sure my heart bleeds for you!

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 by Richardson, Samuel

Now you know, Margaret, that while my heart bleeds for you both, I ask you to release my son.”

From Wee Wifie by Carey, Rosa Nouchette

But he said only, 'My dear Miss Chaloner, my heart bleeds for you; you must prepare to hear the worst.'

From Nevermore by Bolderwood, Rolf

"René, René," said the other, "my heart bleeds for you."

From The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages by Cabell, James Branch

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