Sympathy Quotes

The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.

Catharine Esther Beecher

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

Alex Ferguson

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.

John Burns

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

Dirk Benedict

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

Amos Bronson Alcott

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Agatha Christie

Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.

Henry Cabot Lodge

I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me.

Daniel Johns

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

Alfred Tennyson

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have great sympathy for people that are infertile, but a life is not something you can give away.

Mary Beth Whitehead

It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.

Nellie Bly

Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.

Anne Grant

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Oliver Goldsmith

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

Confucius

Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will always be listened to with respect and sympathy.

Stafford Cripps

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Malcolm Forbes

Soft pity enters an iron gate.

William Shakespeare

I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake.

Joe Cornish

I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.

Anson Mount