Inspirational Words Of Sympathy And Condolence

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“When you’ve been raised in care, rap music isn’t just about guns and sexism. They’re talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It’s not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that.”
– Samantha Morton

“We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.”
– Samuel Hopkins Adams

“All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“There’s no greater way to gain an audience’s sympathy than by being unfortunate.”
– Seth Green

“Alone, Everyone, Grief”
– Tears Are The Silent Language Of Grief

“It is in Rousseau’s writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.”
– Terry Eagleton

“I didn’t go to university. Didn’t even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.”
– Terry Prachett

“Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.”
– Thomas Aquinas

“Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.”
– Thomas More

“I’m not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who’s going to win, and I’m not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who’s going to lose.”
– Tim Kaine

“September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.”
– Tom Ford

“I don’t really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I’m writing. The two go together – I’m interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.”
– Tom Perrotta

“Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.”
– Victor Hugo

“And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.”
– Walt Whitman

“The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.”
– Washington Irving

“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”
– William Blake

“There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.”
– William E. Gladstone

“The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.”
– William James

“A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.”
– William R. Alger

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”
– William Shakespeare

“That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.”
– William Wordsworth

“I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life‘s wisdom.”
– Wislawa Szymborska

“Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.”
– Woodrow Wilson

“Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.”
– Xenophon

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