Sympathy Quotes - Page 15

Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.

He watched and wept and prayed and felt for all

The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.

I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.

The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humour, curiosity, and self-importance.

In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee

There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous.

Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late.

I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.

Who can tell what metals the gods use in forging the subtle bond which we call sympathy, which we might as well call love.

A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity.

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.

Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long.

Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored.

Happy is the man who has that in his soul which acts upon the dejected as April airs upon violet roots. Gifts from the hand are silver and gold, but the heart gives that which neither silver nor gold can buy. To be full of goodness, full of cheerfulness, full of sympathy, full of helpful hope, causes a man to carry blessings of which he is himself as unconscious as a lamp is of its own shining. Such a one moves on human life as stars move on dark seas to bewildered mariners; as the sun wheels, bringing all the seasons with him from the south.

How in the turmoil of life can love stand, Where there is not one heart, and one mouth and one hand.

I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of God, is his private ail. Let this be righted, let the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsake his generous companions without apology.

When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.

There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.