Sympathy Quotes

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.

Wislawa Szymborska

I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals.

Charles Trevelyan

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

Florence Nightingale

A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.

Morris Raphael Cohen

Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!

David Chalmers

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

Bob Feller

I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.

Tim Kaine

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.

Harold Bloom

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.

George Santayana

He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.

S. J. Perelman

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sympathy is never wasted except when you give it to yourself.

John W. Draper

The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.

Nicholson Baker

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 this capacity do not possess it. Warmth of heart, impulsiveness, pity are not enough.

Simone Weil

If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.

Samuel Johnson

No man needs sympathy because he has to work. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt