Quotes about sympathy
sympathy artist understanding
Pablo Picasso Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
sympathy felt
Oliver Goldsmith He watched and wept and prayed and felt for all
sympathy depression light
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.
sympathy sweet ties
Pierre Corneille There are secret ties, there are sympathies, by the sweet relationship of which souls that are well matched attach themselves to each other, and are affected by I know not what, which cannot be explained
sympathy suicide men
Pliny the Elder Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
sympathy struggle justice
Mohammed Morsi We all have to announce our full solidarity with the struggle of those seeking freedom and justice in Syria, and translate this sympathy into a clear political vision that supports a peaceful transition to a democratic system of rule that reflects the demands of the Syrian people for freedom.
sympathy levels university
Terry Pratchett I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.
sympathy black horizon
Terence McKenna Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back out of the hole.
sympathy atmosphere wells
Ralph Waldo Emerson Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.
sympathy stars wall
Ralph Waldo Emerson One man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars
sympathy secret secret-life
Ralph Waldo Emerson The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.
sympathy heart doctors
Leonard Nimoy I've noticed that about your people, Doctor. You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million. You speak about the objective hardness of the Vulcan heart, yet how little room there seems to be in yours.
sympathy heart thrill
Kate Smith 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.
sympathy government silence
John Kenneth Galbraith One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their silence.
sympathy lessons lectures
Lionel Blue I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.
sympathy past history
Queen Elizabeth II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.
sympathy outcast universal
Julian Barnes The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.
sympathy wise brother
Ralph Waldo Emerson When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.
sympathy education children
Ralph Waldo Emerson The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to live over the unconscious history with a sympathy so tender as to be almost personal experience.
sympathy nature fishing
Ralph Waldo Emerson In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.
sympathy hands solitude
Ralph Waldo Emerson Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy.
sympathy men fire
Ralph Waldo Emerson We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man, man.
sympathy sadness men
Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend. The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.
sympathy men giving
Ralph Waldo Emerson A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.
sympathy condolences wine
Thomas Aquinas Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
sympathy everyday tasks
Therese of Lisieux Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe.
sympathy memories lost-love
Leo Buscaglia I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love.
sympathy taken self
Lew Wallace Sympathy is in great degree a result of the mood we are in at the moment; anger forbids the emotion. On the other hand, it is easiest taken on when we are in a state of most absolute self-satisfaction.
sympathy condolences world
Oscar Wilde If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
sympathy thinking world
George MacDonald When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over
sympathy disappointment
Elizabeth Gaskell In all disappointments sympathy is a great balm.
sympathy sweet sweet-things
Louisa May Alcott Sympathy is a sweet thing.