Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Up to the present man has hardly cultivated sympathy at all. He has merely sympathy with pain, and sympathy with pain is not the…

— Oscar Wilde

There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

— Oscar Wilde

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

— Oscar Wilde

“Physical pain is not the worst thing a human has to deal with,” Altman said. “Believe me, I see it every day. Not death,…

— Jo Nesbø

“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”

— Oscar Wilde

“So far as we feel sympathy, we feel we are not accomplices to what caused the suffering. Our sympathy proclaims our innocence as well…

— Susan Sontag

“It comforted him because it could not be called suffering if it was a sign of Art.”

— Hermann Bahr

“Such it is for those in the grips of misfortune: declarations of support and sympathy, rather than providing comfort, may merely increase the victim's…

— Osamu Dazai

“So true it is, and so terrible too, that up to a certain point the thought or sight of misery enlists our best affections;…

— Herman Melville

“To me, sympathy was like alcohol on a scraped knee. It didn't really heal anything; it just made the injury sting.”

— Jill S. Alexander

“It must be remembered that while sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of joy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish…

— Oscar Wilde

“all were suffering; that whatever way one took in this world, one must try to remember that all were suffering (none content; all wronged,…

— George Saunders