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Sympathy Quotes - Page 14

O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer!

O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer!

William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.3813, BookCaps Study Guides

A sympathy in choice.

'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 141

To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own soul.

William Mountford, Frederic Dan Huntington (1850). “Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth”, p.213

Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it

William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1468, Delphi Classics

The light has gone out of my life.

Theodore Roosevelt (2014). “Forgotten Tales and Vanished Trails”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.

Soren Kierkegaard, Alastair Hannay (2014). “The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin”, p.51, W. W. Norton & Company

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

"Troades" by Seneca the Younger, 786, 1st century.

All powerful souls have kindred with each other

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.544

Needs there groan a world in anguish just to teach us sympathy?

Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.559, Wordsworth Editions

One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.93

The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.87

We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man, man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.115, Рипол Классик

It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction

Sir Philip Sidney (1724). “The works of the Honourable Sir Philip Sidney, kt., in prose and verse”, p.774

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.17, Simon and Schuster