- Tears are the silent language of grief.
- Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
- W. H. Davies on Sympathy
- 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 on Sympathy
- The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
- William James on Sympathy
- The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
- Barbara Sher on Sympathy
- The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
- James Russell Lowell on Sympathy
- The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
- Irving Babbitt on Sympathy
- The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
- Malcolm Forbes on Sympathy
- The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
- Washington Irving on Sympathy
- 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 on Sympathy
- The only cure for grief is action.
- George Henry Lewes on Sympathy
- The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.
- Anthony Storr on Sympathy
- 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 on Sympathy
- The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
- Irving Babbitt on Sympathy
- There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
- Dante Alighieri on Sympathy
- There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on Sympathy
- There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
- 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 on Sympathy
- 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 on Sympathy
- There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous.
- There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate.
- Seth Green on Sympathy
- 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 on Sympathy
- They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George.
- Audrey Meadows on Sympathy
- This sympathy is not translated into force against the British government because it is not like the anti- apartheid movement which had a high profile here and Mandela is a more engaging figure than Yasser Arafat.
- Tom Paulin on Sympathy
- Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
- Jean Giraudoux on Sympathy
- 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 on Sympathy
- To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
- Ivan Turgenev on Sympathy
- 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 on Sympathy
- Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
- Benjamin Disraeli on Sympathy
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