My Sympathy Quotes

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over

It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

Jesus was the first great teacher of men who showed a genuine sympathy for childhood. When He said "Of such is the kingdom of heaven," it was a revelation.

I don't try to kind of go for the overly sympathetic. I don't really like sympathy; I don't like it for myself. Sometimes sympathy you feel like, you're kind of trying to victimize someone.

It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.

Atheist, without God, I look to humankind for sympathy, for love, for hope, for effort, for aid.

They [the people under you] may desire help, but more than anything else they desire sympathy. Don't make the mistake of turning such men down with the statement that you have troubles of your own.

Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.

My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

Reverence awakens in the soul a sympathetic power through which we attract qualities in the beings around us, which would otherwise remain concealed.

Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.

Intercession means that we deliberately substitute God’s interests in others for our natural sympathy with them.

In your heart must well that sympathy which soothes away all pains from the hearts of others.

One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.

Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.

It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring.

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others - what and whom we can work with, and how - becomes wider.

Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back out of the hole.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Sympathy for the lowest animals is one of the noblest virtues with which man is endowed.

when pain is to be born, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.

Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish; but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.

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.

The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen.

A man is not completely born until he is dead.

I never ride horseback now because my sympathy with the under-dog is too keen. After we have a gone a few blocks, I always dismount and say to the horse: 'We'll walk it together, old dear.

Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

I definitely have sympathy for people who are struggling. I've met with young Muslims who have told me about their struggles.

A heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathise

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own.

Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed.

The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle

The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don’t. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.

It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof

Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction

We can give our smiles, our encouragement, our sympathy to someone who needs them every day of the year.

Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings. Of the world

Certain it is, that as nothing can better do it; so there is nothing greater, for which God made our tongues, next to reciting His praises, than to minister comfort to a weary soul.

There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.

A sympathizer is a fellow that's for you as long as it doesn't cost anything.

For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul, If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.

Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.

Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.

If anything ail a man, so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even,- for that is the seat of sympathy,-he forthwith sets about reforming the world.