Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I'm not looking for sympathy at all.

E. M. Forster

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

Philip Sidney

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

Felicia Hemans

We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

George Eliot

There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.

George Eliot

even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt each other by their very attempts at sympathy or consolation. We can bear no hand on our bruises.

George Eliot

The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind.

George Eliot

Surely, surely the only one true knowledge of our fellow man is that which enables us to feel with him--which gives us a fine ear for the heart-pulses that are beating under the mere clothes of circumstance and opinion.

Charles Bukowski

I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.

Madonna Ciccone

I made a vow that I would never need another person ever. Turned my heart into a cage, a victim of a kind of rage.

Frank Zappa

Broken hearts are for assholes, are you an asshole?

Eric Clapton

I know there will be no more tears in heaven.

Enrique Pena Nieto

Behind every crime is a story of sadness.

Eminem

When you feel like you've had it up to here, and you're mad enough to scream, but you're sad enough to tear, that's rock bottom.

Elvis Costello

I woke up and one of us was crying.

Gwyneth Paltrow

It is with hearts full of sadness that we have decided to separate.

Gregor Mendel

To live without experiencing some shame and blushes of admiration would surely be a wretched life.

Brad Paisley

Anytime you do something from the heart, people just know it.

Jane Hirshfield

A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you change the human heart the culture will follow.

Jane Hirshfield

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

Jane Goodall

Without the heart to ground it and open it to who we really can be as human beings, the brain is a very dangerous machine. A machine that is saying: we've got to have economic growth; we've got to have unending economic growth, otherwise societies will collapse. And yet there should be something saying: wait a minute, this isn't going to work.

Cesar Chavez

Society is made up of groups, and as long as the smaller groups do not have the same rights and the same protection as others - I don['t care whether you call it capitalism or communism -it is not going to work. Somehow, the guys in power have to be reached by counterpower, or through a change in their hearts and minds, or change will not come.

Carroll O'Connor

Nothing but the heart can change the heart.

Bela Lugosi

My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me.

Bella Thorne

You always just have to be the best that you can be. And if you know that in your heart, then that's all that matters.

bell hooks

Only love can heal the wounds of the past. However, the intensity of our woundedness often leads to a closing of the heart, making it impossible for us to give or receive the love that is given to us.