Sympathy Quotes · Page 32

Far better one unpurchased heart than glory's proudest name.

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

“...and as a result yet today we are unable to distinguish between sympathy and selfishness.”

— M.H. Rakib

Sympathy is a virtue unknown in nature.

— Paul Eipper

We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man, man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I feel like there's a lot of sympathy and camaraderie among documentary filmmakers.

— Morgan Neville

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Every time you victimized someone,” I said, “you were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you’ve done, you’ve done to yourself. Every…

— Andy Weir

“The situation got worse when they came back to her apartment after and someone put on music. An advert interrupted during a…

— Olivia Sudjic

Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction

— Virgil

It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

— Oscar Wilde

Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.

— Anonymous

Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature…

— Henry David Thoreau

I thought she'd [her mother] offer me some sympathy. Instead, she said, 'Don't you ever call me crying again! You wanted to…

— Jennifer Lopez

“Up to the present man has hardly cultivated sympathy at all. He has merely sympathy with pain, and sympathy with pain is…

— Oscar Wilde

I just feel that most of these women are .... to put it nicely...LOST! I sometimes find it hard to have sympathy…

— Anonymous

Surely, surely the only one true knowledge of our fellow man is that which enables us to feel with him--which gives us…

— George Eliot

“My reputation is largely the creature of the kindly imaginings of my flock, whom I chose not to disillusion, in part because…

— Marilynne Robinson

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

— Philip Sidney

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

— Florence Nightingale

“[T]he distance between sympathy and sensuality is as short as that which separates those two words in the dictionary.”

— Pitigrilli

A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly…

— George Henry Lewes

I am speechless. This loss is beyond words. Please know I am here for you morning, noon, and night. I can't imagine…

— Anonymous

While it may not heighten our sympathy, wit widens our horizons by its flashes, revealing remote hidden affiliations and drawing laughter from…

— Marie Taylor Collins Swabey

“Or maybe it was already too late; you only get one first love. She was mine, but I had not been hers.…

— Olivia Sudjic