Sympathy Quotes and Sayings
He watched and wept and prayed and felt for all
- Oliver
Goldsmith.
Do not be afraid of showing your affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and
affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy, than by service; love is more
than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.
- John
Lubbock
I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm
better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those
that don't. - Alton Brown
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism. - Henri Frederic Amiel
I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these
growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people
the only vehicles of life's wisdom. - Wislawa Szymborska
One man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars.- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and
the dividing of our grief. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with
the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is
always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor
critic. - John Hall
The greatest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude. -Thornton Wilder
Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink. - W. H. Davies
The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for
what you lose; never for what you lack - Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine.
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
-Albert Einstein
They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill
what never dies. -William Penn
While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him
behind the veil - John Taylor.
Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin - Yevgeny
Yevtushenko.
All powerful souls have kindred with each other - Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death.
-Leonardo Davinci
And with the morn those angel faces smile, which I have loved long since and
lost awhile. - John Henry Newman.
Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings.
Of the world - Sri Chinmoy.
My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else. - Brownie
McGhee
To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature
of righteousness. - Confucius
Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic,
ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the
warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior. - Henry Ossawa Tanner
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom
no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need
sympathy the most often attract it the least. - F. H. Bradley
There are secret ties, there are sympathies, by the sweet relationship of which
souls that are well matched attach themselves to each other, and are affected by
I know not what, which cannot be explained - Pierre Corneille.
As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold
him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might. - Marian Anderson
Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it
angers them. - Bob Feller
I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the
stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls. - Lionel Blue
Sympathy is a virtue unknown in nature. - Paul Eipper
I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental
oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith
that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers. - Dorothy
Day
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or
opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one
whole. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for
those who did. - Terry Prachett
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. - Kahlil Gibran
A sympathetic heart is like a spring of pure water bursting forth from the
mountain side. - Anonymous
Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction - Vergil.
Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load. - Charles Henry Parkhurst
Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy
from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce. - P. J.
O'Rourke
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and
nature. - Henry David Thoreau
His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be. - Oscar Wilde
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. - Kate Smith
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity - William
Penn.
Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their
interests. - George William Norris
It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy
with the music of this century. - Alan Hovhaness
It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the
Constitution with which they are not in sympathy. - Alfred E. Smith
I can sympathize with everything, except suffering. - Oscar Wilde
Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling
of resentment towards them. - Ben Elton