Quotes about sympathy
sympathy voice may
The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true. Nicholson Baker
sympathy people touching
Most people are on the world, not in it-- having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them-- undiffused seporate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but seporate. John Muir
sympathy condolences losing-a-loved-one
Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day. Liane Moriarty
sympathy art soul
If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller. Friedrich Schiller
sympathy death men
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life Lucan
sympathy people pleasure
According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.
sympathy dog men
You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men. Max Beerbohm
sympathy army past
I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force. Lech Walesa
sympathy sparks favour
It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction Philip Sidney
sympathy heart men
Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs; thus are we men. Philip James Bailey
sympathy loss thinking
I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life. Marlo Thomas
sympathy secret language
The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle John Ruskin
sympathy country father
Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.
sympathy sweet sweet-things
Sympathy is a sweet thing. Louisa May Alcott
sympathy reality historical
Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them, whatever metaphorical truth, I cannot accept them as credible explanations of reality; and they are incredible to me in proportion to the degree that they require my belief in positive human attributes and intervenient powers in their divinities. John Fowles
sympathy thinking world
When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over George MacDonald
sympathy disappointment
In all disappointments sympathy is a great balm. Elizabeth Gaskell
sympathy laughter people
I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with. John Irving
sympathy condolences angel
And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile. John Henry Newman
sympathy condolences power
Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind. John Milton
sympathy education children
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. Emma Goldman
sympathy bird tree
In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee Lord Byron
sympathy grief letters
When griefs are genuine, I find, there is nothing more vacuous, more burdensome, or even more impertinent, than letters of consolation. Lord Chesterfield
sympathy kindness inspiration
The more sympathy you give, the less you need. Malcolm Forbes
sympathy knowing feelings
I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life. Major Taylor
sympathy long-distance-relationship goodbye
Wherever you are you will always be in my heart. Mahatma Gandhi
sympathy heart hug
I would walk a thousand miles To feel your hugs and see your smiles But then one day we had to part The hardest day, it broke my heart But I still see you every day Because in my heart and mind you stay. Gail Collins
sympathy death sweet
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation. Hermann Hesse
sympathy death condolences
I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
sympathy sports condolences
The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.
sympathy condolences losing-a-loved-one
He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.
sympathy good-night condolences
Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more return. Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn.
sympathy heart hands
How in the turmoil of life can love stand, Where there is not one heart, and one mouth and one hand.