sympathy

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

2 wisdom & wit from W. H. Davies

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

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

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.

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 wisdom & wit from Davy Crockett

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

5 quotes from Irving Babbitt

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

12 views from Malcolm Forbes

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

5 sayings 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 wisdom & wit from Lillie Langtry

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

24 views from Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

100 quotes from Oscar Wilde

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

4 other quotes from Fritz Sauckel

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

7 other views 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 quotes from Alphonse de Lamartine

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

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

3 other views from Ivan Turgenev

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

32 thoughts from William Blake

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

52 wisdom & wit from George Eliot

Tears are the silent language of grief.

78 thoughts 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 more thoughts 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 more sayings from Evelyn Underhill

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

12 more quotes from George MacDonald

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 quotes from William James

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 wisdom & wit 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 more views from Khalil Gibran

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

25 quotes from Orison Swett Marden

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

20 more wisdom & wit from Thomas Aquinas

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

15 thoughts from Moliere

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

73 views from Victor Hugo

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

29 thoughts from Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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

26 wisdom & wit from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

5 quotes from Thomas More

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

24 thoughts from James Russell Lowell

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

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

2 more quotes from James Martineau

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

7 more quotes from Corrie Ten Boom

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

81 quotes from William Shakespeare

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

2 more quotes from Anne Sullivan

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

14 more thoughts from Edward Gibbon

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

4 other sayings from Charles Henry Parkhurst

The only cure for grief is action.

9 views from George Henry Lewes

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

18 quotes from Washington Irving

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 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 quotes from Jerome K. Jerome

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

22 other views from Robert Browning

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

30 other sayings from Walt Whitman

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

4 other thoughts from Florence Nightingale

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

24 more sayings from Joseph Addison

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

3 sayings from Henry Cabot Lodge

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

15 other quotes from Pierre Corneille

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

7 more quotes from Harriet Beecher Stowe