Sympathy Quotes
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The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.
— Orville Dewey
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
— Washington Irving
Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.
— Bertrand Russell
They recount their earliest memories without any sympathy for the child they once were,
— Alice Miller
Today I feel some uneasiness in recalling how much I suffered, I have no sympathy for myself of that time.
— Elena Ferrante
We are so sorry to hear the sad news. He(She) will be Always in our thoughts, Forever in our prayers Eternally in our memories
— Margaret Jones
Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
— Pliny The Elder
He shook his head in mock sympathy. I tell you, Sage. Sometimes I think I am the one who needs to take out the restraining order on you.
— Richelle Mead
No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Time does not heal all wounds, no matter how many drugstore sympathy cards hastily scrawled by distant relatives promise this to be true.
— Julie Buxbaum
It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm not looking for sympathy, just understanding.
— Jacoby Shaddix
Too many people make the past their identity and spend the rest of their lives accumulating sympathy for their past pain.
— Laura Schlessinger
One of them had a large wooden sign nailed to its door proclaiming, NO SYMPATHY! I wondered what non-arcane visitors might think of the warning.
— Patrick Rothfuss
The sensation that had plagued me after graduating, of being on the outside of some mystery, peeking in, returned.
— Olivia Sudjic
I couldn't think of a reply except No, so I said, 'Sure.
— Olivia Sudjic
Lucy's idea of sympathy compared unfavorably with some of the interrogation techniques they had used at Guantanamo.
— Robert Galbraith
What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart.
— Jerry Spinelli
I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.
— Conrad Black
Sympathy is especially a Christian duty.
— Charles Spurgeon
A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
— Joseph Conrad
His mind had no horizon - and his sympathy had no warp.
— John Steinbeck
Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.
— Joni Mitchell
I don't want to alarm anyone, but everywhere we go I see Alec Baldwin. It's like he's following us.
— Olivia Sudjic
No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.
— Thomas Carlyle
Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers.
— Barbara Kingsolver
God does not live in structures of stone or brick. He lives in soft hearts warm with sympathy and fragrant with universal love.
— Sathya Sai Baba
To Remember Is Painful, To Forget Is Impossible.
— Maureen Connolly
Not every single way of saying the right thing is right.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.
— Francis Herbert Hedge
The soul of conversation is sympathy.
— William Hazlitt
Our love one's are never gone, they have just popped into another room.
— Billie Jean King
We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man, man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's nothing more debilitating about a disability than the way people treat you over it.
— Solange Nicole
In prayerful sympathy and love. Hold to the old truth double distilled. — Edward McKendree Bounds
My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.
— Brownie McGhee
The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.
— Randa Abdel-Fattah
Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!
— David Chalmers
Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.
— Napoleon Hill
A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
All powerful souls have kindred with each other
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
All my life I still have found, and I will forget it never;Every sorrow hath its bound, and no cross endures forever. — Paul Gerhardt
Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings. Of the world
— Sri Chinmoy
And as a result yet today we are unable to distinguish between sympathy and selfishness.
— M.H. Rakib
We never think lightly of those who walk with us on our uphill days.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
The happiest life has the greatest number of points of contact with the world, and it has the deepest feeling and sympathy with everything that is.
— Liberty Hyde Bailey
A suffering or tortured animal always filled her with such a surge of sympathy that it lifted her clean out of herself.
— L.M. Montgomery
It is the storyteller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.
— Graham Greene
When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.
— H.L. Mencken
In all disappointments sympathy is a great balm.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
Sympathy can turn so quickly. Just add fear. Stir.
— Jack Ketchum
Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies.
— Jonas Gahr Store
Laughter means sympathy.
— Thomas Carlyle
The light has gone out of my life.
— Theodore Roosevelt
cloying your-best-friend's-dead sympathy that will drive
— Gayle Forman
No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.
— Billy Graham
Approach the world with sympathy and compassion, just don't take any of it very seriously.
— Kate Baggott
She was limp and pathetic and woozy and I loved her, I realised, even more because I knew how completely it was doomed.
— Olivia Sudjic
I had no sympathy for drama queens.
— Gillian Flynn
He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.
— S.J Perelman
To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness
— Confucius
It was a classic Nixon move: goad an opponent into attacking, then ride a wave of sympathy s you defend your honour.
— Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy
By the law of nature, there is no pleasure in suffering; but divine love, when it reigns in a heart, makes it take delight in its sufferings.
— Alphonsus Liguori
I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don't want to go through what you've been through to get there.
— Orson Scott Card
Beauty may be perceived in any scene by one with sympathy and understanding. Beauty is in the mind.
— Walter J. Phillips
If you truly have compassion in your heart, show it by keeping your doubts to yourself and sharing your hope with those who love change!
— Israelmore Ayivor
Ammu quickly learned to recognize and despise the ugly face of sympathy. They ... gloated. She fought off the urge to slap them.
— Arundhati Roy
In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.
— Edward Gibbon
To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life.
— Madame De Stael
Death cannot kill what never dies.
— William Penn
Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
To be full of being is to live as a body-soul. One name for the experience of full being is joy.
— J.M. Coetzee
A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle.
— Julian Fellowes
