Sympathy Quotes

“A brother’s sufferings claim a brother’s pity.”
- Joseph Addison

“A grave is braced not just by a tombstone but by angels as well.”
- Adabella Radici

“A marriage or a refusal or a proposal thrills through a whole household of women, and sets their hysterical sympathies at work.”
- William Makepeace Thackeray

“A sympathy in choice.”
- William Shakespeare

“Ah! thank heaven, travelers find Samaritans as well as Levites on life’s hard way.”
- William Makepeace Thackeray

“All powerful souls have kindred with each other.”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“And with the morn those angel faces smile, which I have loved long since and lost awhile.”
- John Henry Newman

For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, “It might have been”
- John Greenleaf Whittier

“For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.”
- William Penn

“He kept at true good humour’s mark, the social flow of pleasure’s tide.”

“He never made a brow look dark, Nor caused a tear, but when he died.”
- Thomas Love Peacock

“He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all.”
- Oliver Goldsmith

“He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.”
- Robert Ingersoll

“It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favor to one when he is lowest in affliction.”
- Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney)

“It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.”
- Novalis

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