sympathy
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 other thoughts from Khalil Gibran
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 other quotes from Meister Eckhart
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
13 quotes from Dante Alighieri
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
40 other wisdom & wit from William James
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
20 quotes from Thomas Aquinas
Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
25 more quotes from Orison Swett Marden
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
15 quotes from Moliere
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
29 wisdom & wit from Arthur Schopenhauer
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
26 views from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
24 more wisdom & wit from James Russell Lowell
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
73 other thoughts from Victor Hugo
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
5 quotes from Thomas More
He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.
2 other quotes 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
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
2 thoughts from Anne Sullivan
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
18 quotes from Washington Irving
Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.
4 quotes from Charles Henry Parkhurst
The only cure for grief is action.
9 quotes from George Henry Lewes
Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
2 views from James Martineau
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
14 wisdom & wit from Edward Gibbon
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
7 quotes from Corrie Ten Boom
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
81 more views from William Shakespeare
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
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
30 other views from Walt Whitman
Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.
3 other thoughts from Henry Cabot Lodge
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
4 thoughts from Florence Nightingale
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
22 more views 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 quotes from Kate Smith
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
24 quotes from Joseph Addison
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
15 thoughts from Pierre Corneille
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
7 more thoughts from Harriet Beecher Stowe
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
2 more wisdom & wit from W. H. Davies
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
18 other views from Marcel Proust
The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
5 thoughts 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 sayings from Davy Crockett
The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
12 thoughts from Malcolm Forbes
You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.
10 quotes from Max Beerbohm
The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
5 quotes from Irving Babbitt
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
24 views from Henri Frederic Amiel
Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.
6 quotes from Lillie Langtry
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
8 views from Alphonse de Lamartine
Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
7 more quotes from Jean Giraudoux
I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.
4 other views from Fritz Sauckel
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
100 other thoughts from Oscar Wilde
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
24 thoughts from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Tears are the silent language of grief.
78 other sayings from Voltaire
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
32 views from William Blake
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
3 quotes from Ivan Turgenev
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
52 quotes from George Eliot
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 views from Aneurin Bevan
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 views from Alex Ferguson
When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.
12 quotes from George MacDonald
Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
19 other wisdom & wit from Woodrow Wilson
Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
4 more thoughts from Evelyn Underhill