Sympathy Quotes

“The craving for sympathy is the common boundary-line between joy and sorrow.”
- A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare

“The greatest pleasures of which the human mind is susceptible are the pleasures of consciousness and sympathy.”
- Parke Godwin

“The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.”
- John Ruskin

“The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humor, curiosity, and self-importance – Marie von Ebner.”
-Eschenbach

“The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.”
- Benjamin Disraeli

“The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack.”
- Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine

“There are secret ties, there are sympathies, by the sweet relationship of which souls that are well matched attach themselves to each other, and are affected by I know not what, which cannot be explained.”
- Pierre Corneille

“There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.”
- William Cowper

“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”
- Thomas Campbell

“To rejoice in another’s prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another’s grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.”
- Tryon Edwards

“True sympathy is beyond what can be seen and touched and reasoned upon.”
- Mrs. Campbell Praed

“We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility.”
- William Hazlitt

“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”
- Kenji Miyazawa

“We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man, man.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say.”
- William Shakespeare

“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.”
- Kahlil Gibran

“While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.”
- John Taylor

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