Sympathy Quotes

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

Farewell, dearest friend, never to see one another any more till at the right hand of Christ.

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers!

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.

If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.

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

As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.

At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service.

I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them.