Inspirational Words Of Sympathy And Condolence

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“I’m in total sympathy with Dick Smith’s sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name.”
– Hugh Mackay

“A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.”
– Irving Babbitt

“The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.”
– Irving Babbitt

“The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.”
– Irving Babbitt

“To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.”
– Ivan Turgenev

“Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere.”
– Ivor Novello

“Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.”
– James Martineau

“The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.”
– James Russell Lowell

“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 weep recover more quickly than those who smile.”
– Jean Giraudoux

“It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.”
– Jerome K. Jerome

“Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.”
– Jesse Jackson

“Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.”
– John Buchanan Robinson

“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

“I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave – and nothing but laughter to console them with.”
– John Irving

“It’s no good being nice and young and naive. There’s no good in that at all. You’ve got to do it all yourself, and you’ve gotta learn quick. And you can’t look for sympathy either.”
– Johnny Rotten

“Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.”
– Joni Mitchell

“I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.”
– Joseph Addison

“Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout’s arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them.”
– Juliette Gordon Low

“I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I’ve reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.”
– Kate Smith

“Grief changes shape, but it never ends.”
– Keanu Reeves

“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
– Khalil Gibran

“You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.”
– Laura Carmichael

“Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all.”
– Laura Ingalls Wilder

“I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.”
– Lech Walesa

“Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.”
– Lillie Langtry

“I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can’t be learnt in lecture halls.”
– Lionel Blue

“Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.”
– Louise J. Kaplan

“Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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