Sympathy Sayings And Quotes

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

“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

“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.

“I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.”
– Mary Shelley

“George’s hand lifted and fell away again. It seemed an insult to imply that anything so small as a touch could stop the raw feeling in Sir Stephen’s suddenly dark and haunted eyes.”
– Mette Ivie Harrison

“We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte

“one thing I don’t need
is any more apologies
I got sorry greeting me at my front door
you can keep yrs
I don’t know what to do wit em
they don’t open doors
or bring the sun back
they don’t make me happy
or get a morning paper
didn’t nobody stop using my tears to wash cars
cuz a sorry.”
– Ntozake Shange

“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 sympathize with the color, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.”
– Oscar Wilde

“His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be”
– Oscar Wilde

“The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Woman’s fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension.
– Ouida

“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

“Sympathy is a virtue unknown in nature.”
– Paul Eipper

“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 couldn’t think of anyone I’d ever felt sorry for. There were plenty of kids I was envious of. There were others I achingly admired, but that might simply be another form of jealousy. Then there were those I feared, dreaded. And the worst of them, the man who shamed me. I could see my father’s angry features looming over my mother. I could clearly picture her beside him in his truck, cowering against the door while he belittled and assaulted her.
– Richelle E. Goodrich

“I felt ashamed for having judged him so harshly without knowing the real boy. His one offense against me, goaded by Charlie’s bullying character, was easy to forgive.”
– Richelle E. Goodrich

“We never think lightly of those who walk with us on our uphill days.”
– Richelle E. Goodrich

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

“Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow. ”
– Robert Louis Stevenson

“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

“Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.”
– Soren Kierkegaard

“If a wave of service sweeps over the land, catching everyone in its enthusiasm, it will be able to wipe off the mounds of hatred, malice and greed that infest the World. Attune your hearts so that it will vibrate in sympathy with the woes and joys of your fellow-men. Fill the World with Love. Love will warn you against advising another to do something which you yourself are unwilling to do; your conscience will tell you that you are living in a lie!”
– Sri Sathya Sai Baba

“You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don’t want to change.”
– Sue Grafton

“When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left. ”
– Sufi

“May the blessings of love be upon you, May its peace abide with you, May its essence illuminate your heart, Now and forever more…. ”
– Sufi Blessing

“None of us can choose where we shall love…”
– Susan Kay

“As you danced in the light with joy, love lifted you. As you brushed against this world so gently, you lifted us. ”
– TC Ring

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