Sympathy Quotes - Page 6

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.

Where there is great love there are always miracles.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

one thing I don’t need is any more apologies i got sorry greetin me at my front door you can keep yrs i don’t know what to do wit em they don’t open doors or bring the sun back they don’t make me happy or get a mornin paper didn’t nobody stop usin my tears to wash cars cuz a sorry.

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.

When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.

Death cannot kill what never dies.

Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

All the best of the monsters played for sympathy. That goes for my father, Karloff, myself and all the others. They all won the audience's sympathy. The Wolf Man didn't want to do all those bad things. He was forced into them.

When you are sorrowful, look again.

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

To the extent that we hyper-separate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually in order to justify domination, we not only lose the ability to empathise and to see the non-human sphere in ethical terms, but also get a false sense of our own character and location that includes an illusory sense of autonomy. The failure to see the non-human domain in the richer terms appropriate to ethics licences supposedly ‘purely instrumental’ relationships that distort our perceptions and enframings, impoverish our relations and make us insensitive to dependencies and interconnections

A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.