658 Quotes About Sympathy

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

By the law of nature, there is no pleasure in suffering; but divine love, when it reigns in a heart, makes it take delight in its sufferings.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Shall I tell you what you have that other men don't?.... It's the courage of your own tenderness.

A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly see one he loves braving the same peril; simply because he cannot feel within turn that which prompts another. He sees the danger, and feels not the power that is to overcome it.

He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more return. Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn.

How in the turmoil of life can love stand, Where there is not one heart, and one mouth and one hand.

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.