Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

sympathy

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

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

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

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.

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.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

The only cure for grief is action.

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

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.

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.

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.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

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

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

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.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

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.

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.