Quotes about sympathy
sympathy death wise
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable. Erich Fromm
sympathy patience kindness
Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience. Evelyn Underhill
sympathy sorry people
The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste their small store of sympathy on those who can provide it so richly for themselves. Gerald Brenan
sympathy profound desire
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness. Ivan Turgenev
sympathy heart islands
It seemed to me that all things were possible on the island, all tyrannies and cruelties, though in small; and if, in despite of what was possible, we lived at peace with another, surely this was proof that certain laws unknown to us held sway, or else that we had been following the promptings of our hearts all this time, and our hearts had not betrayed us. J. M. Coetzee
sympathy fall blessing
When we appropriate money from the public funds to pay for vaccinating a horde of negroes, we do not do it because we have any sympathy for them or because we crave their blessings, but simply because we don't want them to be falling ill of smallpox H. L. Mencken
sympathy rogues fool
In any combat between a rogue and a fool the sympathy of mankind is always with the rogue.
sympathy women two
When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.
sympathy men brave
A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly see one he loves braving the same peril; simply because he cannot feel within turn that which prompts another. He sees the danger, and feels not the power that is to overcome it. George Henry Lewes
sympathy criticism goes-on
Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin. Harold Bloom
sympathy felt
He watched and wept and prayed and felt for all Oliver Goldsmith
sympathy dream blessed
Death is the most blessed dream. Georg Buchner
sympathy true-friend giving
Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul. Martin Luther King, Jr.
sympathy giving soul
True sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
sympathy people care
The people that I care about are the people out there on the street. I can identify with them. Princess Diana
sympathy party humanity
The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.
sympathy expression people
There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore. Golda Meir
sympathy condolences compassion
Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy. Giovanni Boccaccio
sympathy way gains
There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate. Seth Green
sympathy kindness world
It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world. Nellie Bly
sympathy self people
The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humour, curiosity, and self-importance. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
sympathy condolences loss
The light has gone out of my life. Theodore Roosevelt
sympathy real heart
There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy. Margaret Fuller
sympathy long cost
A sympathizer is a fellow that's for you as long as it doesn't cost anything. Kin Hubbard
sympathy condolences grief
Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground. Oscar Wilde
sympathy pain doe
Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain. Lillie Langtry
sympathy pleasure our-thoughts
One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
sympathy hussein administration
There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous. Les Aspin
sympathy selfish people
Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears. Leigh Hunt
sympathy inspiration heart
No man can force the harp of his own individuality into the people's heart; but every man may play upon the chords of the people's heart, who draws his inspiration from the people's instinct. Lajos Kossuth
sympathy artist understanding
Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding? Pablo Picasso
sympathy suffering easy
It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.
sympathy pain morbid
There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.