Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
29 more quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
73 other wisdom & wit from Victor Hugo
The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
24 quotes from James Russell Lowell
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
26 other quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
5 other views from Thomas More
He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.
2 quotes from S. J. Perelman
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
Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.
4 quotes from Charles Henry Parkhurst
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
14 quotes from Edward Gibbon
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
18 sayings from Washington Irving
The only cure for grief is action.
9 quotes from George Henry Lewes
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
81 views from William Shakespeare
Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
2 more sayings from James Martineau
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
7 quotes from Corrie Ten Boom
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
2 wisdom & wit from Anne Sullivan
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
30 other views from Walt Whitman
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 more views from Kate Smith
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
24 quotes from Joseph Addison
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
4 other wisdom & wit from Florence Nightingale
Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.
3 quotes from Henry Cabot Lodge
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
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
22 other sayings from Robert Browning
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
7 sayings from Harriet Beecher Stowe
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
15 more views from Pierre Corneille
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
117 views from Henry David Thoreau
Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
2 other views from W. H. Davies
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
18 other quotes from Marcel Proust
The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
5 quotes from Irving Babbitt
The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
12 more sayings from Malcolm Forbes
The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
5 quotes 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 views 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 more quotes from Max Beerbohm
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
24 quotes from Henri Frederic Amiel
Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.
6 quotes from Lillie Langtry
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
24 wisdom & wit from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
8 more quotes from Alphonse de Lamartine
Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
7 more wisdom & wit from Jean Giraudoux
I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.
4 other quotes from Fritz Sauckel
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
100 thoughts from Oscar Wilde
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
52 other thoughts from George Eliot
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 thoughts from Aneurin Bevan
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
3 sayings from Ivan Turgenev
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
32 sayings from William Blake
Tears are the silent language of grief.
78 sayings from Voltaire
Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
19 more quotes from Woodrow Wilson
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 quotes from Alex Ferguson
When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.
12 wisdom & wit from George MacDonald
Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
4 sayings from Evelyn Underhill
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
15 thoughts from Moliere
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
13 wisdom & wit from Dante Alighieri
Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
25 more views from Orison Swett Marden
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
40 wisdom & wit from William James
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 more quotes from Meister Eckhart
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
20 wisdom & wit from Thomas Aquinas
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