Oscar Wilde Quotes About Sympathy

• Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sympathy, Grief, Condolences

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Sympathy, Condolences, Would Be

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.216, Wordsworth Editions

• It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sympathy, Suffering, Easy

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.216, Wordsworth Editions

• There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sympathy, Pain, Morbid

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Sympathy, Pain, Joy

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.65, Oscar Wilde

• 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.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Sympathy, Pain

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.51, First Avenue Editions

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Sympathy, Morality, Should

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.120, Oxford University Press on Demand

• The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sympathy, Kindness, Health

  Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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