Condolences Quote by Patricia Wentworth

Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do.

— Boyd K. Packer

The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.

— Luc de Clapiers

It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so…

— F. H. Bradley

Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.

— Anatole France

There are so many people who make their fortunes of the misfortunes of others. I don't know if it's because the world is too…

— Michael Shannon

We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The unhappiness of people is due to their ignorance of nature.

— Baron d'Holbach

For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.

— Honore de Balzac

Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to endure some…

— Arthur Lynch

We pity people too often for the wrong reasons.

— Katherine Anne Porter

“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

However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence. We hold-back…

— Friedrich Nietzsche