Sympathy Quotes - Page 18

Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.

Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them, whatever metaphorical truth, I cannot accept them as credible explanations of reality; and they are incredible to me in proportion to the degree that they require my belief in positive human attributes and intervenient powers in their divinities.

One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame

Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels.

There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at the touch of consoling words, that would reveal the depths of our pain.

When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.

Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.

It is only kindred griefs that draw forth our tears, and each weeps really for himself.

The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind.

The power to console is not within corporeal reach - though its attempt is precious.

Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.

Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes

Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since sometimes our pleasure would be none but for telling of it, and our grief insupportable but for participation.

The most reserved of men, that will not exchange two syllables together in an English coffee-house, should they meet at Ispahan, would drink sherbet and eat a mess of rice together.

Thanks, sir; all the rest is mute.

I have a kind soul that would give you thanks. And knows not how to do it but with tears.

If a person's mind is controlled by forces of revenge and jealousy, it cannot express love & sympathy. And even if they show love and sympathy to others it will yield no good result. The thought will not be reflected in love but in hate.

I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.

Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should learn. It will be ill for him if he proceeds no farther; if his emotions are but excited to roll back on his heart, and to be fostered in luxurious quiet. But unless he learns to feel for things in which he has no personal interest, he can achieve nothing generous or noble.

How bless'd the heart that has a friend. A sympathizing ear to lend.

I will keep faith with death in my heart... For the sake of goodness, for the sake of love, Let no man's heart be ruled by death... The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life; to regard it, with the understanding and the .emotions, as the inviolable condition of life.

No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.

Life for the strongest. There is no sympathy for the slain, only admiration for the winner's strength.

It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.