Sympathy Quotes and Sayings

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.

Sympathy gives immediate shelter to grief.

His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be.

Sympathy is the mother heart of humanity.

The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.

To be in one’s own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness

Sympathy is a fountain-heart of concern.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.

Sympathy is a virtue unknown in nature.

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength not my weakness.

Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.

No man needs sympathy because he has to work. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul, If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track,–but one inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.

Sympathy is the nectar-delight of a bleeding heart.

The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.

The capacity to give one’s attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have this capacity do not possess it. Warmth of heart, impulsiveness, pity are not enough.

The craving for sympathy is the common boundary-line between joy and sorrow.

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathize with the color, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.

Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.