Quotes about sympathy
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 sorry looks
A sympathetic look always makes me feel sorry for myself. Mason Cooley
sympathy father silence
I answered my father's demands for sympathy with silence.
sympathy self self-pity
Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others.
sympathy pain people
the reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer ... Mary Astor
sympathy children empathy
Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children. Michael Gove
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 son simple
But better far it is to speak One simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men. James Russell Lowell
sympathy affliction too-late
Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late. Laurence Sterne
sympathy giving-up heart
I would go fifty miles on foot to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into his Author's hands; be pleased, he knows not why, and cares not wherefore.
sympathy condolences losing-a-loved-one
Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day. Liane Moriarty
sympathy children compassion
Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion. Louise J. Kaplan
sympathy expression recognition
Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
sympathy people political
We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people. Helmut Kohl
sympathy men law
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature. Henry David Thoreau
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 grief world
The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack Sophie Swetchine
sympathy war suggestions
Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will always be listened to with respect and sympathy. Stafford Cripps
sympathy condolences dark
He kept at true good humor's mark The social flow of pleasure's tide: He never made a brow look dark, Nor caused a tear, but when he died. Thomas Love Peacock
sympathy pain grief
Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since sometimes our pleasure would be none but for telling of it, and our grief insupportable but for participation. William Wycherley
sympathy grief condolences
We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. William Wordsworth
sympathy condolences grief
Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.
sympathy coffee men
The most reserved of men, that will not exchange two syllables together in an English coffee-house, should they meet at Ispahan, would drink sherbet and eat a mess of rice together. William Shenstone
sympathy knowing sorrow
May it make your sorrow Easier for you to bear Knowing there are others Who understand and care. Rob Jackson
sympathy running hurt
To those who fall and hurt themselves one runs with comfort; by those who lie dangerously stricken by a disease one sits and waits. Rebecca West