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  • The philanthropist too often surrounds mankind with the remembrance of his own cast- off griefs as an atmosphere, and calls it sympathy. We should impart our courage, and not our despair, our health and ease, and not our disease, and take care that this does not spread by contagion.

    Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.122
  • It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.

    Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.18, Golgotha Press
  • Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

    George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1477, Delphi Classics
  • After the clouds, the sunshine; after the winter, the spring; after the shower, the rainbow; for life is a changeable thing. After the night, the morning, bidding all darkness cease, after life's cares and sorrows, the comfort and sweetness of peace.

    Helen Steiner Rice (2004). “The Poems and Prayers of Helen Steiner Rice”, p.134, Revell
  • The most reserved of men, that will not exchange two syllables together in an English coffee-house, should they meet at Ispahan, would drink sherbet and eat a mess of rice together.

    Sympathy   Coffee   Men  
    William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.43
  • Just when all seems to be going right, challenges often come in multiple doses applied simultaneously. When those trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more. He therefore gives you experiences that stimulate growth, understanding, and compassion which polish you for your everylasting benefit.

  • The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1076, Delphi Classics
  • California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?

  • You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don’t want to change.

    Change   Sympathy   Baby  
    Sue Grafton (2007). “T is for Trespass: A Kinsey Millhone Novel”, p.94, Penguin
  • It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

  • They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

    Sympathy   Death   Grief  
    Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.79, Courier Corporation
  • To Remember Is Painful, To Forget Is Impossible.

  • That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don’t know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who’ve never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, contempt, and general indifference, and they call it love. Once you’ve felt what it means to love as you and I know it – the total passion for the total height – you’re incapable of anything less.

    Love   Life   Sympathy  
    Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.572, Penguin
  • He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.

  • September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.

  • I'll be there for you, I will care for you, I keep thinking you just don't know. Tryna run from that, say you're done wit that, on your face girl it just don't show.

    "Song: "Take Care" ("Take Care")". February 21, 2012.
  • I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

    "Terry Pratchett". www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2008.
  • We Are So Sorry To Hear About The Loss Of Your Little One No One Can Know What You Are Going Through But We Are Thinking Of You At This Very Very Sad Time We Are Here Should You Need Help Or Support God Bless You And Your Little One And Let Him Take care Of Him Till You Meet Again

  • Memory nourishes the heart, and grief abates.

    Marcel Proust (1966). “Letters of Marcel Proust”
  • True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.

  • What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

    Love   Life   Sympathy  
    "Quote, Unquote". Book by Lloyd Cory, p. 197, 1977.
  • Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.

    Speech accepting an award from the National Institute for Immigrant Welfare, Biltmore Hotel, New York, May 11, 1933.
  • The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.

    Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3952, Delphi Classics
  • In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends--give me the country.

    D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.117, Cambridge University Press
  • We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

  • The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have the capacity do not possess it.

    Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.36, Routledge
  • Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.

    Harriet Beecher Stowe (1867). “Religious Poems”, p.21
  • The dew of compassion is a tear.

  • Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late.

    Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.98
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