Inspirational Words Of Sympathy And Condolence

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“I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life.”
– Major Taylor

“The more sympathy you give, the less you need.”
– Malcolm Forbes

“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”
– Marcel Proust

“It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.”
– Marlo Thomas

“Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.”
– Max Beerbohm

“Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.”
– Meister Eckhart

“There’s something very beautiful and compelling about someone who has ambition and someone who knows what they want, but it can get a little frustrating at times, so I understand that. I have sympathy for that.”
– Michael Ealy

“Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.”
– Michael Gove

“We all have to announce our full solidarity with the struggle of those seeking freedom and justice in Syria, and translate this sympathy into a clear political vision that supports a peaceful transition to a democratic system of rule that reflects the demands of the Syrian people for freedom.”
– Mohammed Morsi

“If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.”
– Moliere

“A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.”
– Morris Raphael Cohen

“It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.”
– Nellie Bly

“You don’t go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.”
– Nigella Lawson

“Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.”
– Orison Swett Marden

“If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.”
– Oscar Wilde

“There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.”
– Ovid

“Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.”
– P. J. O’Rourke

“Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.”
– Paul Harris

“One often calms one’s grief by recounting it.”
– Pierre Corneille

“Grief is the price we pay for love.”
– Queen Elizabeth Ii

“To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.”
– Queen Elizabeth Ii

“We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.”
– Richard M. Nixon

“I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don’t have a lot of sympathy for because I’m just going to be with them too long.”
– Richard Russo

“Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.”
– Robert Browning

“He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.”
– S. J. Perelman

“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.”
– Saint Augustine

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