Affliction Quote by Tryon Edwards

Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief more poignant.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Sympathy is a shallow stream in the souls of those who have not suffered.

— W. Sangster

Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.

— Lillie Langtry

There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy; but there is more - there is action. The noblest and most powerful form…

— Octavius Winslow

True sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I have a silent sorrow here; A grief Ill neer impart; It breathes no sigh, it sheds not tear, But it consumes my heart.

— Anonymous

The sorrow which calls for help and comfort is not the greatest, nor does it come from the depths of the heart.

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else.

— Josh Billings

“Sympathy is a nobler feeling than pity. But if sympathy is the principal reason that one person is drawn to another, there will always…

— Dean Koontz

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

— Ovid