“Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.”
- Rossiter Worthington Raymond
“Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.”
- Benjamin Robert Haydon
“Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other’s rights and wrongs; thus are we men.”
- Philip James Bailey
“Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction.”
- Vergil
“Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it.”
- William Hazlitt
“Of a truth, men are mystically united, a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.”
- Thomas Carlyle
“Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.”
- Kahlil Gibran
“One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular.”
- Sir Richard Steele
“One man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.”
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
“Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.”
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
“Our own cast-off sorrows are not sufficient to constitute sympathy for others.”
- Madame Suzanne Curchod Necker
“Pity and need. Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.”
- Sir Edwin Arnold
“Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength not my weakness.”
- Amos Bronson Alcott
“Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings Of the world.”
- Sri Chinmoy
“Sympathy has to be the first and foremost thing in one’s life, sympathy and the feeling of oneness. There cannot be anything greater than the feeling of oneness.”
- Sri Chinmoy
“Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.”
- Samuel Smiles
