Sympathy Quotes - Page 10

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.

We need to strengthen such inner values as contentment, patience and tolerance, as well as compassion for others. Keeping in mind that it is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends, compassion is the key to ensuring our own well-being.

Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.

It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.

We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

I’ve always liked Saturn. But I also have some sympathy for Pluto because I heard it’s been downgraded from a planet, and I think it should remain a planet. Once you’ve given something planetary status it’s kind of mean to take it away.

I'm not looking for sympathy, just understanding.

We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance.

I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

A horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long.

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

Sending you sincere condolences and the wish that the passing of time eases your sorrow.

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over

Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.