172 private quotes tagged sympathy

“It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.” — Corrie Ten Boom

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

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“People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.” — Ann Landers

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“Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“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.

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

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“There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.” — Aeschylus

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“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

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“Tears are the silent language of grief.” — Voltaire

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

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

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“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

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

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“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

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“A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

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“Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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“Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.” — George Eliot

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

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“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

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

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“Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.” — Henry Cabot Lodge

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