sympathy
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
24 quotes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.
6 quotes from Lillie Langtry
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
100 wisdom & wit from Oscar Wilde
Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
7 other sayings 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 other sayings from Alphonse de Lamartine
I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.
4 thoughts from Fritz Sauckel
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
52 quotes from George Eliot
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
3 quotes from Ivan Turgenev
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
32 views 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 other 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 other quotes 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 sayings from Evelyn Underhill
When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.
12 quotes from George MacDonald
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
40 wisdom & wit from William James
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
13 other quotes from Dante Alighieri
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
15 views 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 wisdom & wit from Meister Eckhart
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
20 other quotes 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 other wisdom & wit from Khalil Gibran
Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
25 more thoughts from Orison Swett Marden
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
29 quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer
The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
24 more views 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 other sayings from Victor Hugo
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
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
5 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 sayings from Alan Hovhaness
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
14 sayings from Edward Gibbon
Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
2 other 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 more wisdom & wit from Washington Irving
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
81 other sayings 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 sayings from Corrie Ten Boom
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
30 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 more 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
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
4 views from Florence Nightingale
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
22 quotes 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 views from Jerome K. Jerome
Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.
3 quotes from Henry Cabot Lodge
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
7 thoughts from Harriet Beecher Stowe
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
15 more 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 thoughts from W. H. Davies
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
117 views from Henry David Thoreau
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 other quotes from Davy Crockett
The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
12 more quotes from Malcolm Forbes
The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
5 quotes 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 quotes from Max Beerbohm
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
24 quotes from Henri Frederic Amiel