Sympathy Quotes, Sayings for sad times
+26Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.
- Edmund Burke
+26Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+24Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength not my weakness.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
+24Sympathy is a fountain-heart of concern.
- Anonymous
+20Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
- Henry Frederic Amiel
+20Sympathy is the mother heart of humanity.
- Anonymous
+18The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+16His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be.
- Oscar Wilde
+16If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
- Oscar Wilde
+16Sympathy gives immediate shelter to grief.
- Anonymous
+14Sympathy is a virtue unknown in nature.
- Paul Eipper
+3There is no death. Only a change of worlds.
- Chief Seattle
+1A sympathetic heart is like a spring of pure water bursting forth from the mountain side.
- Anonymous
+1Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove The ceaseless sufferings Of the world.
- Sri Chinmoy
+1There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
- William Cowper
+1Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.
- Dr. Charles Henry Parkhurst
+1Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
- Edward Gibbon
+1Sympathy is never wasted except when you give it to yourself.
- John W Raper
+1A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
- William R. Alger
+1Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it.
- William Hazlitt
+1The craving for sympathy is the common boundary line between joy and sorrow.
- A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare
+1Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
- Jean Anouilh
+1When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.
- George MacDonald
+1Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold; a woman adds to it her sympathy.
- Ernest Wilfrid LeGouve
+1The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.
- Julian Patrick Barne
+1The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good humor, curiosity, and self importance.
- Marie Von Ebner Eschenbach
+1We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility.
- William Hazlitt
+1Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.
- Louise J. Kaplan
+1The greatest pleasures of which the human mind is susceptible are the pleasures of consciousness and sympathy.
- Parke Godwin
+1You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.
- Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
+1Sympathy for victims is always counter balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
- Ben Elton
+1To rejoice in another’s prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another’s grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.
- Tryon Edwards
