Quotes on Sympathy

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

There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.

We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly human.

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.

As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others - what and whom we can work with, and how - becomes wider.

I really feel that some people neglect and overlook compassion because they associate it with religion. Of course, everyone is free to choose whether they pay religion any regard, but to neglect compassion is a mistake because it is the source of our own well-being.

I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.

Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction

One man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars

What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say

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

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

Jesus, Thou art all compassion, pure unbounded love Thou art; Visit us with Thy salvation, enter every trembling heart.

Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.

There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at the touch of consoling words, that would reveal the depths of our pain.

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