sympathy
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
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
81 views from William Shakespeare
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
2 more views 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 thoughts from Washington Irving
Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
2 other views from James Martineau
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
14 other quotes from Edward Gibbon
Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.
4 more quotes from Charles Henry Parkhurst
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
7 other wisdom & wit from Corrie Ten Boom
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
24 more quotes from Joseph Addison
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 other views from Kate Smith
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 other quotes from Jerome K. Jerome
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
4 other thoughts from Florence Nightingale
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
22 other quotes from Robert Browning
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 quotes from Henry Cabot Lodge
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
15 other thoughts from Pierre Corneille
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
7 quotes from Harriet Beecher Stowe
Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
2 other quotes from W. H. Davies
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
18 wisdom & wit from Marcel Proust
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
117 more thoughts from Henry David Thoreau
The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
5 other sayings 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 wisdom & wit 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 thoughts from Max Beerbohm
The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
12 other views from Malcolm Forbes
The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
5 views from Irving Babbitt
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
24 more wisdom & wit from Henri Frederic Amiel
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
24 thoughts from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
7 more quotes from Jean Giraudoux
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
8 more quotes from Alphonse de Lamartine
I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.
4 views from Fritz Sauckel
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
100 quotes from Oscar Wilde
Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.
6 quotes from Lillie Langtry
Tears are the silent language of grief.
78 more wisdom & wit from Voltaire
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 wisdom & wit from Aneurin Bevan
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
32 sayings from William Blake
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
3 views from Ivan Turgenev
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
52 other views from George Eliot
When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.
12 thoughts from George MacDonald
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 thoughts 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 views from Evelyn Underhill
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 wisdom & wit 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 wisdom & wit from Meister Eckhart
Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
25 wisdom & wit from Orison Swett Marden
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
13 views 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 more sayings from Thomas Aquinas
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
15 sayings from Moliere
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
26 quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
24 sayings from James Russell Lowell
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
73 views from Victor Hugo
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
5 more quotes from Thomas More
He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.
2 quotes from S. J. Perelman
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
29 other sayings from Arthur Schopenhauer