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"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 on Sympathy

More quotes about 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

• "Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength."

  Corrie Ten Boom on Sympathy

• "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 on Sympathy

• "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 on Sympathy

• "When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions."

  William Shakespeare on Sympathy

More quotes by John Irving

• "I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write."

• "And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone."

• "The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of."

• "I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin."

• "If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it."