Quotes on My Sympathy

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

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.

I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies always went out to the weak, the suffering, and the poor. Realizing their sorrows I tried to relieve them in order that I myself might be relieved.

If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories.

Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

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

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

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

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

And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.

I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love.

A human life is a story told by God.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.