Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Sympathy.
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
Mother Theresa
I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Excess of grief for the dead is madness for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
Xenophon
His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be
Oscar Wilde
But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long.
Hjalmar Schacht
We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
To the ones that arise from urgent material needs.
Christopher Hitchens
I've always liked Saturn. But I also have some sympathy for Pluto because I heard it's been downgraded from a planet, and I think it should remain a planet. Once you've given something planetary status it's kind of mean to take it away.
Jared Leto
Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.
Randolph Churchill
Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathize with the color, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
Washington Irving
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
Anne Sullivan
Pity is for living, envy is for dead.
Mark Twain
Pity is a thing often vowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.
Charles Caleb Colton
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George Eliot
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
Victor Hugo
Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
Woodrow Wilson
One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
Jean Anouilh
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
William James
