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