sympathy
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
7 more quotes from Harriet Beecher Stowe
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
15 quotes from Pierre Corneille
Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
2 more thoughts from W. H. Davies
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
18 wisdom & wit from Marcel Proust
You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.
10 other wisdom & wit from Max Beerbohm
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 quotes from Davy Crockett
The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
5 more sayings from Irving Babbitt
The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
12 quotes from Malcolm Forbes
The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
5 more views from Irving Babbitt
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
24 sayings 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 thoughts from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
100 other quotes from Oscar Wilde
Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
7 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 wisdom & wit from Alphonse de Lamartine
I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.
4 other views from Fritz Sauckel
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 sayings 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
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
52 views from George Eliot
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
32 thoughts from William Blake
Tears are the silent language of grief.
78 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 more views 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 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
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 sayings from Meister Eckhart
Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
25 views from Orison Swett Marden
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 wisdom & wit from Khalil Gibran
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
40 other quotes from William James
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
13 other quotes from Dante Alighieri
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
20 thoughts from Thomas Aquinas
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 other views from Arthur Schopenhauer
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
73 wisdom & wit from Victor Hugo
He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.
2 wisdom & wit 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
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 other wisdom & wit 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 other quotes from Alan Hovhaness
Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.
4 quotes from Charles Henry Parkhurst
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
7 more sayings from Corrie Ten Boom
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 quotes from Anne Sullivan
Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
2 other thoughts from James Martineau
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
14 sayings from Edward Gibbon
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 other quotes from Washington Irving
Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.
3 views from Henry Cabot Lodge
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
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
22 views from Robert Browning
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
30 quotes from Walt Whitman
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
4 wisdom & wit from Florence Nightingale
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