Quotes about sympathy
sympathy condolences losing-a-loved-one
He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
sympathy good-night condolences
Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more return. Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn.
sympathy heart hands
How in the turmoil of life can love stand, Where there is not one heart, and one mouth and one hand.
sympathy death condolences
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
sympathy son simple
But better far it is to speak One simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men. James Russell Lowell
sympathy affliction too-late
Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late. Laurence Sterne
sympathy giving-up heart
I would go fifty miles on foot to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into his Author's hands; be pleased, he knows not why, and cares not wherefore.
sympathy condolences losing-a-loved-one
Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day. Liane Moriarty
sympathy art soul
If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller. Friedrich Schiller
sympathy death men
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life Lucan
sympathy people pleasure
According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.
sympathy children compassion
Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion. Louise J. Kaplan
sympathy dog men
You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men. Max Beerbohm
sympathy condolences death-of-a-loved-one
When you are sorrowful, look again. Khalil Gibran
sympathy love-is doe
Love is timeless.... Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.
sympathy death grief
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
sympathy flower condolences
Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.
sympathy men laughing
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him. Napoleon Bonaparte
sympathy blame praise
One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
sympathy want ordinary
Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
sympathy destiny joy
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
sympathy sorry apology
one thing I don’t need is any more apologies i got sorry greetin me at my front door you can keep yrs i don’t know what to do wit em they don’t open doors or bring the sun back they don’t make me happy or get a mornin paper didn’t nobody stop usin my tears to wash cars cuz a sorry. Ntozake Shange
sympathy mind gains
It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof Novalis
sympathy soul unions
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
sympathy compassion console
The power to console is not within corporeal reach - though its attempt is precious. Emily Dickinson
sympathy pain kindness
If I can stop one heart from breaking…” Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.
sympathy thinking compassion
The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have the capacity do not possess it. Simone Weil
sympathy wise brother
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. Ralph Waldo Emerson
sympathy education children
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
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
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
We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man, man.
sympathy sadness men
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.