Category: Quotes About Sympathy

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

There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous. -Les Aspin

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. -Tom Paulin

I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals. -Charles Trevelyan

California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance? -Denis Kearney

The only cure for grief is action. -George Henry Lewes

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

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

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell. -Joni Mitchell

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century. -Alan Hovhaness

If the terrorists have the sympathy of people, it's much harder to find them. So we need people on our side, and that leads us to be responsible leaders of the world, show some concern with the problems. -George Soros

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

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. -John Hall

IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction. -Carl Clinton Van Doren

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load. -Charles Henry Parkhurst

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. -Marcus Tullius Cicero

Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is…

I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one. -Aneurin Bevan

We all have to announce our full solidarity with the struggle of those seeking freedom and justice in Syria, and translate this sympathy into a clear political vision that supports a peaceful transition to a democratic system of rule that reflects the demands of the Syrian people for freedom. -Mohammed Morsi

Excess of grief for the dead is madness for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. -Xenophon

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education. -Angelina Grimke