Quotes about sympathy
sympathy criticism firsts
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism. Henri Frederic Amiel
sympathy death wisdom
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see. Helen Keller
sympathy delicate wells
The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves. Catharine Beecher
sympathy depressing knowledge
There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy. George Eliot
sympathy expression certain
in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.
sympathy hurt hands
even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt each other by their very attempts at sympathy or consolation. We can bear no hand on our bruises.
sympathy heart shelter
The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind.
sympathy heart men
Surely, surely the only one true knowledge of our fellow man is that which enables us to feel with him--which gives us a fine ear for the heart-pulses that are beating under the mere clothes of circumstance and opinion.
sympathy victory
It was going to be a victory dinner. Now it's going to be a sympathy dinner.
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 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 dream blessed
Death is the most blessed dream. Georg Buchner
sympathy believe animal
Many times I am asked why the suffering of animals should call forth more sympathy from me than the suffering of human beings; why I work in this direction of charitable work more than toward any other. My answer is that because I believe that this work includes all the education and lines of reform which are needed to make a perfect circle of peace and goodwill about the Earth. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
sympathy devil stones
I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. 'Sympathy For The Devil' is a great one. Hugh Jackman
sympathy grateful tears
Accept these grateful tears...For thee they flow, for thee... That ever felt another's woe. Homer
sympathy pain bears
There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at the touch of consoling words, that would reveal the depths of our pain. Honore de Balzac
sympathy together band
Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy. Isaac Barrow
sympathy death depressing
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. Isaac Asimov
sympathy balance humanist
The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection. Irving Babbitt
sympathy stress humanitarian
The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
sympathy brother suffering
A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity. Joseph Addison
sympathy indulge-in giving
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
sympathy destiny joy
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
sympathy mind gains
It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof Novalis
sympathy soul unions
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
sympathy compassion console
The power to console is not within corporeal reach - though its attempt is precious. Emily Dickinson
sympathy pain kindness
If I can stop one heart from breaking…” Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.
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