sympathy

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

24 thoughts from Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.

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

100 other thoughts from Oscar Wilde

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

8 more wisdom & wit from Alphonse de Lamartine

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

4 sayings from Fritz Sauckel

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

52 more thoughts from George Eliot

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

3 more sayings from Ivan Turgenev

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

32 more sayings from William Blake

I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.

11 other quotes from Aneurin Bevan

Tears are the silent language of grief.

78 quotes from Voltaire

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

2 quotes from Alex Ferguson

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

19 wisdom & wit from Woodrow Wilson

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

4 quotes from Evelyn Underhill

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.

12 more quotes from George MacDonald

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

40 quotes from William James

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

13 more thoughts from Dante Alighieri

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

15 quotes from Moliere

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

11 quotes from Meister Eckhart

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

20 wisdom & wit from Thomas Aquinas

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

56 sayings from Khalil Gibran

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.

25 more quotes from Orison Swett Marden

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

29 sayings from Arthur Schopenhauer

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

24 quotes from James Russell Lowell

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

26 other quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

73 other wisdom & wit from Victor Hugo

He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.

2 more quotes from S. J. Perelman

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

5 more quotes from Thomas More

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

2 views from Alan Hovhaness

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

14 other quotes from Edward Gibbon

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

2 quotes from James Martineau

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

2 wisdom & wit from Anne Sullivan

The only cure for grief is action.

9 quotes from George Henry Lewes

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

18 quotes from Washington Irving

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

81 quotes from William Shakespeare

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

4 sayings from Charles Henry Parkhurst

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

7 other quotes from Corrie Ten Boom

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

30 more quotes from Walt Whitman

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.

7 views from Kate Smith

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

24 views from Joseph Addison

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

4 sayings from Florence Nightingale

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

22 more sayings from Robert Browning

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

7 wisdom & wit from Jerome K. Jerome

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

3 more views from Henry Cabot Lodge

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

7 quotes from Harriet Beecher Stowe

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

15 quotes from Pierre Corneille

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

18 other quotes from Marcel Proust

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

2 wisdom & wit from W. H. Davies

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

117 wisdom & wit from Henry David Thoreau

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

5 views from Irving Babbitt

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.

5 views from Davy Crockett

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

12 other quotes from Malcolm Forbes

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

5 thoughts from Irving Babbitt

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

10 more quotes from Max Beerbohm

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

24 quotes from Henri Frederic Amiel