Sympathy Quotes
1011 quotes by 779 authors
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
— Isaac Asimov
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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has…
— Saint Augustine
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A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress,…
— Irving Babbitt
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
— Irving Babbitt
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The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
— Irving Babbitt
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What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
— Richard Bach
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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
— Joseph Addison
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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
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Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.
— Dirk Benedict
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I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in…
— Aneurin Bevan
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He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own…
— Aeschylus
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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
— Aeschylus
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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
— William Blake
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I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture…
— Lionel Blue
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
— Corrie Ten Boom
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Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
— Robert Browning
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
— Samuel Butler
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
— Lord Byron
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