Sympathy Quotes - Page 8

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women are they, whose sympathies have had the widest culture, whose aims do not end with self, whose philanthropy, though centrifugal, reaches around the globe.

Compassion is a living, breathing, organic emotion that vibrates through you and links you to those around you.

I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.

Compassion, the fairest associate of the heart.

The people that I care about are the people out there on the street. I can identify with them.

Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more return. Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn.

When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted into which our grief has given us entrance. And inevitably, we will feel about us their arms, their sympathy and their understanding.

Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in our joy: when others are happy they have nothing to do, they become superfluous and lose their feeling of superiority, and so they easily show their displeasure.

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.

And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief.

There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy; but there is more - there is action. The noblest and most powerful form of sympathy is not merely the responsive tear, the echoed sigh, the answering look; it is the embodiment of the sentiment in actual help.

Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.

I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.

Once you find someone to share your ups and downs, downs are almost as good as ups.

Indifference towards those in need is not acceptable for a Christian.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

Most people are on the world, not in it-- having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them-- undiffused seporate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but seporate.

Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, the ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm, big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.