Sympathy Quotations | Page 2

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

There are times when a sports figure doesn't deserve sympathy.

I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

This sympathy is not translated into force against the British government because it is not like the anti- apartheid movement which had a high profile here and Mandela is a more engaging figure than Yasser Arafat.

Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.

I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.

I have sympathy for anyone who finds consolation anywhere we can. And many people do find it in religious tradition as it has been. I mean, I love much of that tradition. But somehow, that just didn't speak to me in the way that it does to some.

Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name.

Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

It's important to find characters that share sympathy with a young audience, not just in the story but their role in the world.

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

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

There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

Our late Leader, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, with his universal sympathy for all oppressed and his profound understanding of Jesus' revolutionary spirit of love and sacrifice, carried on his revolutionary work for forty years and brought about at last the liberation of the Chinese people.

Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.

To avoid becoming chronically unemployed, people need more than platitudes offering sympathy. Career reinvention requires encouragement and guidance.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

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 no grief like the grief that does not speak.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.

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

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

I damaged my health during 'Les Mis,' which I didn't want to mention in case it seemed like I was courting sympathy.

I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

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

Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.

It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. 'Sympathy For The Devil' is a great one.

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

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.

We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

I felt bad when George Bush was booed. But only briefly. My sympathy for that man has a half-life of about four seconds.

Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

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

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

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

In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications must remain in the dark. An invented figure like Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary emerges fully into the light of understanding, which brings with it identification, sympathy and pity.

The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy.

My upbringing has given me sympathy for the idea of isolation and what it is to be a new person in the room, where everyone else has some amount of familiarity and comfort.

I would get on the bike every morning and ride around downtown with a knapsack on my back and literally pick up orders, most of them sympathy orders. I just kept that route every day just to let people know we were serious.

NFL fans have less sympathy for fallen players than the Romans had for blind Christians.

When the judges are sentencing these people, in a lot of ways they see their neighbors. These are not violent people. They tend to be well-educated, well-spoken. Most have no prior criminal record. When you add that all up, that is the type of situation that tends to generate sympathy with the judge.

More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.

Nobody has any sympathy for oil companies on Capitol Hill right now. You talk to someone driving to work in an F-150 pickup and paying $75 to fill up his tank, and everybody's on his side.

I have endless sympathy for (them) because I see myself so much in them.

I have great sympathy for people that are infertile, but a life is not something you can give away.

I don't have sympathy for her. She's here, she's playing good golf and she's enjoying it.

I don't get much sympathy because Andy's such a loveable character. Anything Robert does seems to provoke a negative reaction from people on the street. I think one or two people feel a bit sorry for him now and again but it doesn't last very long.

If we let sympathy overcome reason, then sympathy becomes what race became in another case.

There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime.

Mr. Kushner said he has great sympathy and compassion for the governor, and his heart goes out to him.

Mr. Baxter had the utmost integrity and she respected him immensely. Mrs. Watkins expresses her heartfelt sympathy and prayers to her family.

She comes from the theater, so she has tons of experience. She has intelligence and the audience has an immediate sympathy for her.

Maggie touched so many people beyond basketball. Our family has received an outpouring of sympathy from across the country and we are deeply appreciative. As her older brother I know she looked up to me. But I always looked up to her, too, and it's obvious that a lot of other people did as well.

Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong.

Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.

Everyone in the full enjoyment of all the blessings of his life, in his normal condition, feels some individual responsibility forthe poverty of others. When the sympathies are not blunted by any false philosophy, one feels reproached by one's own abundance.

... the hey-day of a woman's life is on the shady side of fifty, when the vital forces heretofore expended in other ways are garnered in the brain, when their thoughts and sentiments flow out in broader channels, when philanthropy takes the place of family selfishness, and when from the depths of poverty and suffering the wail of humanity grows as pathetic to their ears as once was the cry of their own children.

The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.

I'm not looking for sympathy at all.