Inspirational Words Of Sympathy And Condolence

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“I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.”
– Dorothy Day

“Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.”
– Eamon De Valera

“Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.”
– Edward Gibbon

“I’ve always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You’re trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that’s about so you can represent it.”
– Edward Norton

“No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.”
– Emma Goldman

“Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.”
– Evelyn Underhill

“It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.”
– F. H. Bradley

“Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.”
– Florence Nightingale

“In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.”
– Frances E. Willard

“I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.”
– Fritz Sauckel

“Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.”
– Gary Ackerman

“Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.”
– George Eliot

“The only cure for grief is action.”
– George Henry Lewes

“When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.”
– George Macdonald

“I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he’s made of sugar.”
– George Saunders

“If the terrorists have the sympathy of people, it’s much harder to find them. So we need people on our side, and that leads us to be responsible leaders of the world, show some concern with the problems.”
– George Soros

“Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.”
– George William Norris

“The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.”
– Goldwin Smith

“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

“Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.”
– Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can’t have perfection in a world of limited resources.”
– Harry Browne

“You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.”
– Haruki Murakami

“If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other’s nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.”
– Havelock Ellis

“Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.”
– Henri Frederic Amiel

“Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.”
– Henry Cabot Lodge

“It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior.”
– Henry Ossawa Tanner

“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“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

“I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. ‘Sympathy For The Devil’ is a great one.”
– Hugh Jackman

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