“The majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism – are forced, indeed, so to spoil them. They… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man's intelligence...it is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I have also learnt sympathy with suffering. To me, suffering seems now a sacramental thing, that makes those whom it touches holy.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence; and, as I pointed out some time ago in an article… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Many times I am asked why the suffering of animals should call forth more sympathy from me than the suffering of human… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Up to the present man has hardly cultivated sympathy at all. He has merely sympathy with pain, and sympathy with pain is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I felt great empathy for my friend, as one form of cancer after another emerged to challenge him. I felt sympathy for… — Brent Green Copy Share Image
