Sympathy Quotes

“Love is the end of sympathy.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

the soul of conversation is sympathy

— Thomas Campbell

Death cannot kill what never dies.

— William Penn

“For even satire is a form of sympathy.”

— D. H. Lawrence

“empathy is more powerful than sympathy”

— Angie Thomas

Mr. Complete Lack of Sympathy

— Karen Chance

A human life is a story told by God.

— Hans Christian Andersen

I feel no sympathy for my food.

— Seth Rogen

In prayerful sympathy and love. Hold to the old truth -- double distilled.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others.

— Mason Cooley

“We must resist the temptation to romanticize history's losers.”

— Niall Ferguson

Sympathy will have been increased through natural selection

— Charles Darwin

Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help...

— Edith Stein

Sorry rain is the only thing that got you wet this week..

— Anonymous

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

— Robert Browning

Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.

— Pliny the Elder

“You can be a cat god and it doesn't mean shit at the end of the day if you don't have equal…

— Jackson Galaxy

A true friend doesn't have guts; they beat you up and later plead with you to beat them back.

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I grew up an Orthodox Jew, and now I'm not an Orthodox Jew. So I have sympathy for people who lose their…

— Naomi Alderman

Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the…

— Anonymous

I am standing by your side in my prayers every night. Your mom touched so many people's lives, and I know we…

— Anonymous

If you want to write in a mature and interesting way, you have to have sympathy for everyone that's involved.

— Leigh Newman

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

— Dirk Benedict

By peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, without violence, and creatively- a never-ending process

— Johan Galtung

Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he…

— Agatha Christie

Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect…

— Dalai Lama

“If living sympathy be theirs And leaves and airs, The piping breeze and dancing tree Are all alive and glad as we:…

— William Wordsworth

I have come to know Diana better than anyone else, so my sympathy will always lie with her. But I also have…

— Emma Corrin

“We had, I felt, bared small pieces of our symmetrical souls to each other, fast, as if playing one of those breathless…

— Olivia Sudjic

Empathy is much bigger than sympathy. When the character is empathised with, that means you have succeeded as an actor. So even…

— Neeraj Kabi

“We have to live without sympathy, don't we? That's impossible of course. We act it to one another, all this hardness; but…

— John le Carré

“Yes, I think he even has a title. He's like son and heir.' I turned her words over in my mind as…

— Olivia Sudjic

“I'm here for several reason, Mr. Pepin, first of all for aid. When something tragic happens in our skies, we do our…

— Adam Ross

“If you never knew the worlds in my mind your sense of loss would be small pity and we’ll forget this on…

— Steven Erikson

My feelings about men are the result of my experience. I have little sympathy for them. Like a Jew just released from…

— Marilyn French

“I found it hard to write the bits where the things that were at first surprising or even shocking became normal incrementally…

— Olivia Sudjic

“There was one story that anger certainly lit the fuse of. In the 1960's, in my home town of Jackson, the civil…

— Eudora Welty

The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!…

— Henry David Thoreau

“That night I dreamt about the roses laid at the wrong feet—the feet of the nurse. Each bit of the dream was…

— Olivia Sudjic

“Darwin's theory was received in Russia with profound sympathy. While in Western Europe it met firmly established old traditions which it had…

— Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevskiĭ