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

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“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

“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