sympathy

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

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

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

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 quotes from Alphonse de Lamartine

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

100 other sayings from Oscar Wilde

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

4 other thoughts from Fritz Sauckel

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

52 views from George Eliot

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

3 more quotes from Ivan Turgenev

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

32 more quotes 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 more thoughts 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 views from Woodrow Wilson

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

4 more wisdom & wit from Evelyn Underhill

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

12 other views from George MacDonald

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

40 thoughts from William James

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

13 sayings from Dante Alighieri

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

15 wisdom & wit 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 sayings from Meister Eckhart

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 views from Khalil Gibran

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

20 more quotes from Thomas Aquinas

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

25 wisdom & wit from Orison Swett Marden

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

29 more thoughts from Arthur Schopenhauer

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

24 sayings from James Russell Lowell

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

26 quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

73 quotes from Victor Hugo

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

5 views from Thomas More

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

2 sayings from S. J. Perelman

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

2 quotes from Alan Hovhaness

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

14 quotes from Edward Gibbon

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

7 views from Corrie Ten Boom

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

4 quotes from Charles Henry Parkhurst

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

81 other wisdom & wit from William Shakespeare

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

2 more quotes from Anne Sullivan

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

2 quotes from James Martineau

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

18 quotes from Washington Irving

The only cure for grief is action.

9 more thoughts from George Henry Lewes

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

3 views from Henry Cabot Lodge

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

4 quotes from Florence Nightingale

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

30 other wisdom & wit from Walt Whitman

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

22 sayings from Robert Browning

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 sayings from Kate Smith

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

24 more quotes from Joseph Addison

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

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

7 more views from Harriet Beecher Stowe

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

15 other quotes from Pierre Corneille

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

18 more sayings from Marcel Proust

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

2 more quotes from W. H. Davies

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

117 other thoughts from Henry David Thoreau

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

5 other thoughts from Irving Babbitt

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

12 other thoughts from Malcolm Forbes

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

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 other quotes from Davy Crockett

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