658 Quotes About Sympathy

The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.

I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.

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.

The power to console is not within corporeal reach - though its attempt is precious.

If I can stop one heart from breaking…” Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.

The people that I care about are the people out there on the street. I can identify with them.

in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.

There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.

Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.