658 Quotes About Sympathy

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

Death is the most blessed dream.

The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste their small store of sympathy on those who can provide it so richly for themselves.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.

True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.

There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at the touch of consoling words, that would reveal the depths of our pain.

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.