Sympathy Quotes

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. — Isaac Asimov
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
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
The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy. — Irving Babbitt
The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection. — Irving Babbitt
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly. — Richard Bach
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
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair. — Joseph Addison
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
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
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
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
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. — Aeschylus
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. — William Blake
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
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength. — Corrie Ten Boom
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. — Robert Browning
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad. — Samuel Butler
The dew of compassion is a tear. — Lord Byron

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