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“If you're looking for sympathy you'll
find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”
- David Sedaris |
“The more sympathy you give, the
less you need”.
- Malcolm Forbes |
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“If there was less sympathy in the
world, there would be less trouble in the world.”
- Oscar Wilde |
“Sorrow is a fruit. God does not
make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.”
- Victor Hugo |
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“We should feel sorrow, but not sink
under its oppression.”
- Confucius |
“There is no pain so great as the
memory of joy in present grief.”
- Aeschylus |
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“There is no greater sorrow than to
recall happiness in times of misery.”
- Dante Alighieri |
“Almost all of our sorrows spring
out of our relations with other people.”
- Arthur Schopenhauer |
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“The more sympathy you give, the
less you need.”
- Malcolm Forbes |
“A crowd always thinks with its
sympathy, never with its reason.”
- William R. Alger |
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“Truly, it is in darkness that one
finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all
to us.”
- Meister Eckhart |
“If we wait until our lives are free
from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.”
- Dirk Benedict |
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“Our trials, our sorrows, and our
grieves develop us.”
- Orison Swett Marden |
“Sympathy is two hearts tugging at
one load.”
- Charles Henry Parkhurst |
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“It appears to be a law that you
cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.”
- Henry David Thoreau |
“Sympathy is the first condition of
criticism.”
- Henri Frederic Amiel |
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“And whoever walks a furlong without
sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.”
- Walt Whitman |
“When we are out of sympathy with
the young, then I think our work in this world is over.”
- George MacDonald |
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“Marriage must be a relation either
of sympathy or of conquest.”
- George Eliot |
“Deliberately seek opportunities for
kindness, sympathy, and patience.”
- Evelyn Underhill |
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“Autumn wins you best by this its
mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.”
- Robert Browning |
“It is only after one is in trouble
that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.”
- Nellie Bly |
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“Women have no sympathy and my
experience of women is almost as large as Europe.”
- Florence Nightingale |
“The true humanist maintains a just
balance between sympathy and selection.”
- Irving Babbitt |
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“Sympathy is something that
shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.”
- Bob Feller |
“I never ask for mercy and seek no
one's sympathy.”
- Conrad Black |
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“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 |
“I have great sympathy for people
that are infertile, but a life is not something you can give away.”
- Mary Beth Whitehead |
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“It is only after one is in trouble
that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.”
- Nellie Bly |
“Though sympathy alone can't alter
facts, it can help to make them more bearable.”
-Bram Stoker
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“Whether rich people make money or
lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.”
- Gary Ackerman |
“Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one
load.”
- Charles Henry Parkhurst |
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“There's no greater way to gain an
audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate.”
- Seth Green |
“She doesn't want his sympathy. She
hates pity.”
- Julianna Baggott |
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“My guitar was loud as hell, and I
had no sympathy for anybody else.”
- Brownie McGhee |
“It is much more easy to have sympathy
with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.”
- Oscar Wilde |
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“You have to have sympathy for and
an empathy with a character in order to play them.”
- Laura Carmichael |
“Be kind, be all sympathy, For each and
every human beingIs forced to fight against himself.”
- Sri Chinmoy |
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“We were united not only by
political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.”
- Helmut Kohl |
“There is something very morbid about
modern sympathy with pain.”
- Oscar Wilde |
