one's heart bleeds en · X
Pronunciation
- (US) audio
Meanings
-
Expresses that someone has great sympathy or sadness for another's plight or suffering.
Look at those poor little children without shoes on their feet. My heart bleeds for them.
Such a woman comprehends all that is before her; and has the more capacity to suffer from that attitude, that she is able to subscribe to its justice. My heart bleeds for her .
1883, Mary Stanley, Measure for Measure, page 82:His heart bled for his beloved home country.
Is there any heart that would not bleed for a young woman in your position?
1908, Gertrude Pahlow, “The Wealth of the Sinner”, in Munsey's Magazine, volume 39, page 814:We are in the Men's College, with about 300 who have taken refuge with us, and like the apostles we have all things in common; but my heart bleeds for the terror-stricken people whose trust is not so strong as ours, and for the way in which many have gone home.
1896, Life and Light for Woman - Volume 26, page 59:You have to work through the weekend again? My heart bleeds for you. (normally sarcastic)
My heart no longer bleeds for them; as I said before, they have gained the martyr's crown ; but it bleeds for you — it bleeds for your noble parents — it bleeds for those who, born in fatal error, think, when they kill His saints, they do their God a service.
1848, A. M., Montmorency, a Roman Catholic Tale, page 40:
Translations (1)
de das Herz blutet (Translations)