Scorn has broken my heart and has left me helpless; I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found none.
Psalm 69:20
Sympathy is closely linked with compassion. Some people regard sympathy as of no benefit. And in due course they throw away compassion too. Sympathy is conveying our feelings of understanding pain and hardship of the other person to him. In many ways sympathy is beneficial.