Sympathy Quotes - Page 16

I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.

Many times I am asked why the suffering of animals should call forth more sympathy from me than the suffering of human beings; why I work in this direction of charitable work more than toward any other. My answer is that because I believe that this work includes all the education and lines of reform which are needed to make a perfect circle of peace and goodwill about the Earth.

Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?

To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness

Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive.

A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us-is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.

Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he’d tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied.

September did not want to feel for the Marquess. That’s how villains get you, she knew. You feel badly for them, and next thing you know, you’re tied to train tracks. But her wild, untried heart opened up another bloom inside her, a dark branch heavy with fruit.

The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.

Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed on the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don’t know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who’ve never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, contempt, and general indifference, and they call it love. Once you’ve felt what it means to love as you and I know it – the total passion for the total height – you’re incapable of anything less.

I'm not looking for sympathy at all.

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.

I ask Thee for a thankful love, Through constant watching wise, To meet the glad with joyful smiles, And to wipe the weeping eyes, And a heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathize.

When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.

The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a certain utensil - well - well, nevermind.

There are times when sympathy is as necessary as the air we breathe.

May it make your sorrow Easier for you to bear Knowing there are others Who understand and care.

A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.

Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others.