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