Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Johns

I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me.

D. H. Lawrence

For even satire is a form of sympathy. It is the way our sympathy flows and recoils that really determines our lives. And here lies the vast importance of the novel, properly handled. It can inform and lead into new places our sympathy away in recoil from things gone dead. Therefore the novel, properly handled, can reveal the most secret places of life: for it is the passional secret places of life, above all, that the tide of sensitive awareness needs to ebb and flow, cleansing and freshening.

D. H. Lawrence

Shall I tell you what you have that other men don't?.... It's the courage of your own tenderness.

Alexander Pope

Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy.

Albert Schweitzer

We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly human.

E. M. Forster

'Oh, poor, poor fellow!' said Mrs. Elliot with a remorse that was sincere, though her congratulations would not have been.

E. M. Forster

Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.

Confucius

To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness

Daniel Wallace

In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they're going to end.

Alphonsus Liguori

By the law of nature, there is no pleasure in suffering; but divine love, when it reigns in a heart, makes it take delight in its sufferings.

Andre Gide

Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes

Aneurin Bevan

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.

Alton Brown

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.

Anne Bronte

She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly believed I did not.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.

Anna Katharine Green

He who steps on stones is glad to feel the smallest spray of moss beneath his feet.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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

Bram Stoker

Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.

Bruce Coville

Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can’t hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.

Brownie McGhee

My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.

Edmund Burke

It is by sympathy we enter into the concerns of others, that we are moved as they are moved, and are never suffered to be indifferent spectators of almost anything which men can do or suffer. For sympathy may be considered as a sort of substitution, by which we are put into the place of another man, and affected in many respects as he is affected.

Edmund Burke

Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.

Edward Gibbon

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

Edith Wharton

There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.

Audrey Meadows

They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with roses as with coals.

Benjamin Franklin

It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; 'tis rather an embrio state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals?

Benjamin Franklin

A man is not completely born until he is dead.

Daniel Handler

It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring.

Clyde Tombaugh

I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?

Charlotte Bronte

Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate --- with vindictive antipathy. It is cruel --- she cannot help being mad.