Inspirational Words Of Sympathy And Condolence

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Are you seeking some inspirational words of sympathy to comfort someone in a time of unhappiness or grief? Check out these inspiring quotes and sayings.

“I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.”
– A. N. Wilson

“There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.”
– Aeschylus

“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

“My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.”
– Agnes Smedley

“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

“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

“When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it’s merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.”
– Alexei Navalny

“A sorrow’s crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.”
– Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.”
– Alphonse De Lamartine

“I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I’m better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don’t.”
– Alton Brown

“I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.”
– Aneurin Bevan

“People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.”
– Ann Landers

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

“Grief can’t be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.”
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.”
– Anne Sullivan

“I don’t care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who’s understandable and clear.”
– Anson Mount

“I’m not looking for sympathy at all.”
– Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer

“They weren’t impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George.”
– Audrey Meadows

“The cure for sorrow is to learn something.”
– Barbara Sher

“Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.”
– Ben Elton

“Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

“Sympathy is something that shouldn’t be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.”
– Bob Feller

“Here’s my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there’s this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.”
– Carl Hiaasen

“Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.”
– Charles Henry Parkhurst

“I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?”
– Clyde Tombaugh

“We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.”
– Confucius

“I never ask for mercy and seek no one’s sympathy.”
– Conrad Black

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.”
– Corrie Ten Boom

“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

“There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.”
– Dante Alighieri

“Although I’m Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!”
– David Chalmers

“We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.”
– Davy Crockett

“If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.”
– Dirk Benedict

“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

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