Best Sympathy Quotes
1011 Sympathy quotes by 757 unique authors
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Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I…
— Tryon Edwards
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Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an honest and industrious…
— Frances Perkins
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Suave molecules of Mocha stir up your blood, without causing excess heat; the organ of thought receives from it a feeling of sympathy; work becomes…
— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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How bless'd the heart that has a friend. A sympathizing ear to lend.
— Thomas Hood
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Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.
— Giovanni Boccaccio
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I have a kind soul that would give you thanks. And knows not how to do it but with tears.
— William Shakespeare
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For grief is crowned with consolation.
— William Shakespeare
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He who steps on stones is glad to feel the smallest spray of moss beneath his feet.
— Anna Katharine Green
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Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.
— Samuel Smiles
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Compassion, the fairest associate of the heart.
— Thomas Paine
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Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.
— John Milton
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Thanks, sir; all the rest is mute.
— William Shakespeare
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Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but…
— Henry David Thoreau
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There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.
— Oscar Wilde
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It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.
— Oscar Wilde
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Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
— Seneca the Younger
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Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back…
— Terence McKenna
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
— Pliny the Elder
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No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.
— Thomas Carlyle
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I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.
— Oscar Wilde
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it…
— F. H. Bradley
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It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.
— Oswald Chambers
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of…
— Aldous Huxley
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