Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I'm not looking for sympathy at all.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy.

E. M. Forster

Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.

Alphonsus Liguori

By the law of nature, there is no pleasure in suffering; but divine love, when it reigns in a heart, makes it take delight in its sufferings.

Thomas Carlyle

Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.

Sophie Swetchine

The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

Robert Browning

Needs there groan a world in anguish just to teach us sympathy?

Robert Browning

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

Philip Sidney

It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction

Julius Rosenberg

This death sentence is not surprising. It had to be.

Carson McCullers

Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.

Daniel Handler

It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.

Bob Dylan

For whose sake did you live, for whose sake did you die? Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do.

Blaise Pascal

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

Blaise Pascal

Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?

Blaise Pascal

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.

Blaise Pascal

Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.

Winston Churchill

When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

Jane Fonda

I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.

Robert Browning

Poetry, like love, is something we never truly say goodbye to.

Sherri Shepherd

I love the honesty of New Yorkers. When a New Yorker says 'let's do lunch,' they actually mean it. In L.A., when they say 'let's do lunch,' they're just trying to say good-bye.

Jerry Seinfeld

Yeah, like Bizarro Superman, Superman's exact opposite, who lives in the backwards Bizarro world. Up is down, down is up, he says hello when he leaves, goodbye when he arrives.

George Saunders

Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.

Jack Kerouac

What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

Cecelia Ahern

you will always be my favorite hello and hardest goodbye. P.S. i will always love you

John Stanczykiewicz

That's the sad part for me is saying goodbye to these seniors. They've meant so much to this program.

Ryan Tucker

It didn't sound like a goodbye speech at all.