sympathy

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

24 other sayings from Henri Frederic Amiel

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

24 other quotes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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 views 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 more sayings from George Eliot

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

3 more views from Ivan Turgenev

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

32 other 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 views from Aneurin Bevan

Tears are the silent language of grief.

78 wisdom & wit 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 other wisdom & wit from Alex Ferguson

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

19 quotes from Woodrow Wilson

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

4 views from Evelyn Underhill

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

12 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Dante Alighieri

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

15 sayings 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 more thoughts 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 other quotes 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 quotes from Orison Swett Marden

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

29 other wisdom & wit from Arthur Schopenhauer

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

24 other quotes from James Russell Lowell

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

26 sayings from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

73 more quotes from Victor Hugo

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

5 more views from Thomas More

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

2 thoughts 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 views from Alan Hovhaness

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

14 views from Edward Gibbon

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

7 other wisdom & wit from Corrie Ten Boom

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

4 more thoughts 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 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 more quotes from Washington Irving

The only cure for grief is action.

9 other quotes from George Henry Lewes

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

3 more quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Walt Whitman

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

22 more thoughts 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 more thoughts 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 other quotes from Jerome K. Jerome

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 wisdom & wit from Pierre Corneille

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

18 quotes from Marcel Proust

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

2 more views 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 wisdom & wit from Irving Babbitt

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

12 wisdom & wit from Malcolm Forbes

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

5 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 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 quotes from Max Beerbohm