Sympathy Sayings And Quotes

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“I want to know what it’s like to feel affection, compassion, kindness. I want to touch a wimp. But just a light brush against the clothes.”
– Benson Bruno

“If the future seems overwhelming, remember that it comes one moment at a time. ”
– Beth Mende Conny

“Sympathy is something that shouldn’t be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.”
– Bob Feller

“Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.”
– Bram Stoker

“September did not want to feel for the Marquess. That’s how villains get you, she knew. You feel badly for them, and next thing you know, you’re tied to train tracks. But her wild, untried heart opened up another bloom inside her, a dark branch heavy with fruit.”
– Catherynne M. Valente

“Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he’d tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied.”
– Charlaine Harris

“Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.”
– Charles Darwin

“A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away–the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us–is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.”
– Charles Dickens

“Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.”
– Charles Henry Parkhurst

“Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive.”
– Charlotte Brontë

“Sir,’ I interrupted him, ‘you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate — with vindictive antipathy. It is cruel — she cannot help being mad.”
– Charlotte Brontë

“The family came in to select the arrangements they wanted. The woman whose husband had died was struggling dearly to keep her voice intact long enough to place the order. It wasn’t long before she broke down.
– Christian Millman

“To be in one’s own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness”
– Confucius

“Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.”
– Criss Jami

“Why does finding out someone has pain in their life make you appreciate them more as a human being? Shouldn’t we all assume everyone we meet has their own pain?”
– Dalya Moon

“If you’re looking for sympathy you’ll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”
– David Sedaris

“Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.”
– Dorothy Thompson

“Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.”
– Dorothy Thompson

“Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.”
– E.M. Forster

“Oh, poor, poor fellow!’ said Mrs. Elliot with a remorse that was sincere, though her congratulations would not have been.”
– E.M. Forster

“There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.”
– Edith Wharton

“Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart”
– Edmund Burke

“Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery”
– Edward Gibbon

“The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.”
– Elizabeth Drew

“It is easy to tell the toiler
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Many times I am asked why the suffering of animals should call forth more sympathy from me than the suffering of human beings; why I work in this direction of charitable work more than toward any other. My answer is that because I believe that this work includes all the education and lines of reform which are needed to make a perfect circle of peace and goodwill about the Earth.”
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.”
– Emma Goldman

“Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.”
– Florence Nightingale

“It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love—Plus many mysteries.”
– François de la Rochefoucauld

“Such actions are beyond praise: it is the perfume of such sweet and noble human sympathy that makes this wild beasts’ cage a world habitable for men.”
– Frank Harris

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