Quotes about sympathy
sympathy pain morbid
There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain. Oscar Wilde
sympathy balance humanist
The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection. Irving Babbitt
sympathy stress humanitarian
The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
sympathy death wise
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable. Erich Fromm
sympathy sorry people
The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste their small store of sympathy on those who can provide it so richly for themselves. Gerald Brenan
sympathy victory
It was going to be a victory dinner. Now it's going to be a sympathy dinner.
sympathy dream blessed
Death is the most blessed dream. Georg Buchner
sympathy men self
Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women are they, whose sympathies have had the widest culture, whose aims do not end with self, whose philanthropy, though centrifugal, reaches around the globe. Frances E. Willard
sympathy
There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with. George Santayana
sympathy death wisdom
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see. Helen Keller
sympathy delicate wells
The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves. Catharine Beecher
sympathy depressing knowledge
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
sympathy expression certain
in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.
sympathy hurt hands
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.
sympathy heart shelter
The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind.
sympathy heart men
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.
sympathy grateful tears
Accept these grateful tears...For thee they flow, for thee... That ever felt another's woe. Homer
sympathy world needs
Needs there groan a world in anguish just to teach us sympathy? Robert Browning
sympathy fall autumn
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
sympathy men common
One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular Richard Steele
sympathy strong elude-us
But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long. Hjalmar Schacht
sympathy appreciation heart
Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, the ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm, big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior. Henry Ossawa Tanner
sympathy grief tears
It is only kindred griefs that draw forth our tears, and each weeps really for himself. Heinrich Heine
sympathy simple men
When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted. Henry Ward Beecher
sympathy stars moving
Happy is the man who has that in his soul which acts upon the dejected as April airs upon violet roots. Gifts from the hand are silver and gold, but the heart gives that which neither silver nor gold can buy. To be full of goodness, full of cheerfulness, full of sympathy, full of helpful hope, causes a man to carry blessings of which he is himself as unconscious as a lamp is of its own shining. Such a one moves on human life as stars move on dark seas to bewildered mariners; as the sun wheels, bringing all the seasons with him from the south.
sympathy pain suffering
When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same. Toni Morrison
sympathy struggle justice
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. Mohammed Morsi
sympathy people touching
Most people are on the world, not in it-- having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them-- undiffused seporate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but seporate. John Muir
sympathy sparks favour
It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction Philip Sidney
sympathy heart men
Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs; thus are we men. Philip James Bailey
sympathy death sweet
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation. Hermann Hesse
sympathy death condolences
I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
sympathy sports condolences
The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.