Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

sympathy

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century. 2 other quotes from Alan Hovhaness

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. 81 wisdom & wit from William Shakespeare

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction. 2 more views from Anne Sullivan

The only cure for grief is action. 9 more sayings from George Henry Lewes

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind. 18 views from Washington Irving

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections. 2 sayings from James Martineau

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. 14 quotes from Edward Gibbon

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load. 4 wisdom & wit from Charles Henry Parkhurst

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength. 7 other quotes from Corrie Ten Boom

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair. 24 quotes from Joseph Addison

I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine. 7 quotes from Kate Smith

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one. 7 thoughts from Jerome K. Jerome

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe. 4 quotes from Florence Nightingale

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. 22 thoughts from Robert Browning

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud. 30 quotes from Walt Whitman

Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well. 3 other thoughts from Henry Cabot Lodge

One often calms one's grief by recounting it. 15 views from Pierre Corneille

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good. 7 other thoughts from Harriet Beecher Stowe

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink. 2 views from W. H. Davies

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. 18 thoughts from Marcel Proust

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature. 117 thoughts from Henry David Thoreau

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy. 5 views from Irving Babbitt

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. 5 wisdom & wit from Davy Crockett

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men. 10 quotes from Max Beerbohm

The more sympathy you give, the less you need. 12 sayings from Malcolm Forbes

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection. 5 quotes from Irving Babbitt

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism. 24 more sayings from Henri Frederic Amiel

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. 24 quotes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile. 7 more thoughts from Jean Giraudoux

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. 8 other quotes from Alphonse de Lamartine

I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before. 4 other sayings from Fritz Sauckel

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. 100 more quotes from Oscar Wilde

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain. 6 quotes from Lillie Langtry

Tears are the silent language of grief. 78 other quotes from Voltaire

I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one. 11 other sayings from Aneurin Bevan

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. 32 sayings from William Blake

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness. 3 other quotes from Ivan Turgenev

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest. 52 thoughts from George Eliot

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over. 12 sayings from George MacDonald

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries. 2 sayings from Alex Ferguson

Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them. 19 more wisdom & wit from Woodrow Wilson

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience. 4 other quotes from Evelyn Underhill

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. 56 quotes from Khalil Gibran

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us. 11 quotes from Meister Eckhart

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us. 25 quotes from Orison Swett Marden

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. 13 thoughts from Dante Alighieri

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. 40 quotes from William James

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine. 20 views from Thomas Aquinas

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble. 15 quotes from Moliere

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. 26 other quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache. 24 quotes from James Russell Lowell

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. 73 wisdom & wit from Victor Hugo

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. 5 other thoughts from Thomas More

He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it. 2 other views from S. J. Perelman

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. 29 quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer