No Sympathy Quotes

• Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

  Florence Nightingale

  Sympathy, Europe

  Florence Nightingale, Martha Vicinus, Bea Nergaard (1990). “Ever Yours, Florence Nightingale: Selected Letters”, p.230, Harvard University Press

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• Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Two Nations, Political, Feelings

  Sybil bk. 2, ch. 5 (1845) See Kerner 1

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• The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

  Sophie Swetchine

  Sympathy, Grief, World

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• My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.

  Brownie McGhee

  Sympathy, Guitar, Hell

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

  Dante Alighieri

  Inspirational, Happiness, Sad

  Dante Alighieri, Stanley Lombardo (2009). “Inferno”, p.26, Hackett Publishing

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• Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.

  Lillie Langtry

  Sympathy, Pain, Doe

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• For some moments in life there are no words.

  David Seltzer

  Sympathy, Grief, Losing A Loved One

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• Death is no more than passing from one room into another.

  Helen Keller

  Death, Grief, Heaven

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• There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.

  Bjork

  Movie, Book, Understanding

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• There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sympathy, Death, Grief

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sympathy, Men, Law

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.52, Heron Dance Press

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• Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

  Thomas Moore

  Sympathy, Death, Spiritual

  Thomas Moore (1861). “Poetical works”, p.304

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• Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.

  Gary Ackerman

  Sympathy, People, Making Money

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• ...man can no more survive psychologically in a psychological milieu that does not respond empathetically to him, than he can survive physically in an atmosphere that contains no oxygen.

  Heinz Kohut

  Sympathy, Men, Compassion

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• Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

  George W. Norris

  Sympathy, Men, Prejudice

  George W. Norris (1945). “Fighting Liberal: The Autobiography of George W. Norris”, p.195, U of Nebraska Press

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• I have no sympathy for those who, under any pressure of circumstances, sacrifice their heart's-love for legal prostitution.

  Harriet Martineau

  Heart, Sacrifice, Pressure

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.167

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• The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sympathy

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• No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Life, Epic, Las Vegas

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.89, Vintage

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• The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Sympathy, Kindness, Inspiration

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• The Democratic Party supports criminals and Islamic terrorists but has no sympathy for taxpayers.

  Ann Coulter

  Party, Islamic, Support

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.112, Crown Forum

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• We have no sympathy with those who are controlled by ideas and passions which we neither understand nor feel. Thus they who live to satisfy the appetites do not believe it possible to live in and for the soul.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Believe, Passion, Ideas

  "Aphorisms and Reflections" by John Lancaster Spalding, (pp. 239-240), 1901.

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• I shan't ever understand your willingness to lie down and die," Felicity bars. "If you won't at least try to fight, I have no sympathy for you.

  Libba Bray

  Lying, Fighting, Trying

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• I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt, and, of course, if it ceased to beat, I would cease to be. But you know what I mean. I have no softness there, no—sympathy—sentiment—nonsense.

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Mean, Doubt

  Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.267

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• The sons of Adam are limbs of each other, Having been created of one essence. When the calamity of time affects one limb, the other limbs cannot remain at rest. If you have no sympathy for the troubles of others, You are unworthy to be called by the name of a human.

  Saadi

  Son, Names, Essence

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• The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Song, Sea, Forever

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1873). “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell”, p.309

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