172 private quotes tagged sympathy

“I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.” — George Saunders

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“Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.” — Orison Swett Marden

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“We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.” — Helmut Kohl

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“We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.” — Davy Crockett

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“I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” — Agatha Christie

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“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.” — Anne Grant

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“Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.” — Dirk Benedict

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“It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.” — Jerome K. Jerome

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

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“I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.” — Joseph Addison

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“If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.” — Moliere

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“Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.” — Evelyn Underhill

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“Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.” — Florence Nightingale

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“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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“Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.” — Paul Harris

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“Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.” — Joni Mitchell

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“If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.” — Havelock Ellis

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“Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.” — Ovid

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“One often calms one's grief by recounting it.” — Pierre Corneille

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

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

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“I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.” — Marlo Thomas

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“You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.” — Nigella Lawson

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“Grief changes shape, but it never ends.” — Keanu Reeves

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