Sympathy Quotes - Page 12

• I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.

  Tim Kaine

  Winning, Giving, Courtesy

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• When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that.

  Samantha Morton

  Real, Rap, Gun

  "Young, gifted and gabby" by Burhan Wazir, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2000.

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• Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

  George Eliot

  Goodbye, Lonely, Farewell

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.188

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• Sympathy is especially a Christian duty.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Duty

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• Our own cast-off sorrows are not sufficient to constitute sympathy for others.

  Suzanne Curchod

  Sorrow, Casts, Sufficient

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• No man can force the harp of his own individuality into the people's heart; but every man may play upon the chords of the people's heart, who draws his inspiration from the people's instinct.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Inspiration, Heart, Men

  Lajos Kossuth (1852). “Kossuth in New England: A Full Account of the Hungarian Governor's Visit to Massachusetts ; with Speeches, and the Addresses that Were Made to Him ...”, p.89

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• It may, indeed, be said that sympathy exists in all minds, as Faraday has discovered that magnetism exists in all metals; but a certain temperature is required to develop the hidden property, whether in the metal or the mind.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Mind, May, Temperature

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• When griefs are genuine, I find, there is nothing more vacuous, more burdensome, or even more impertinent, than letters of consolation.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Grief, Letters, Vacuous

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• We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.

  Helmut Kohl

  People, Political, United

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• At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.

  Albert Einstein

  Time, Hate, Pride

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation.

  Vaclav Havel

  Sad, Real, Mean

  Open letter to Dr. Gustáv Husák, Communist President, April 8, 1975.

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• We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Life, Eternity, Creeds

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• With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence - o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!

  Thomas Moore

  Broken Heart, Pain, Memories

  Thomas Moore (1835). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Including Melodies, Ballads, Etc”, p.40

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• Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate --- with vindictive antipathy. It is cruel --- she cannot help being mad.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Hate, Mad, Helping

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.246, Penguin

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• I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Country, Son, Different

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• Love is eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence. 


  Vincent Van Gogh

  Love, Wedding Anniversary, Essence

  Vincent van Gogh (1958). “Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence”

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• In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they're going to end.

  Daniel Wallace

  Land, Dying, Ends

  Daniel Wallace (1999). “Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions”, Penguin Group USA

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• I've noticed that about your people, Doctor. You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million. You speak about the objective hardness of the Vulcan heart, yet how little room there seems to be in yours.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Heart, Doctors, People

  "Star Trek: The Immunity Syndrome". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1968.

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• We are so sorry to hear the sad news. He(She) will be Always in our thoughts, Forever in our prayers Eternally in our memories

  Margaret Jones

  Prayer, Sorry, Memories

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• 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.

  Honore de Balzac

  Pain, Depth, Bears

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• All my life I still have found, and I will forget it never;
  Every sorrow hath its bound, and no cross endures forever.

  Paul Gerhardt

  Forever, Sorrow, Forget

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• If a wave of service sweeps over the land, catching everyone in its enthusiasm, it will be able to wipe off the mounds of hatred, malice and greed that infest the World. Attune your hearts so that it will vibrate in sympathy with the woes and joys of your fellow-men. Fill the World with Love. Love will warn you against advising another to do something which you yourself are unwilling to do; your conscience will tell you that you are living in a lie!

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Lying, Heart, Men

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• Certain it is, that as nothing can better do it; so there is nothing greater, for which God made our tongues, next to reciting His praises, than to minister comfort to a weary soul.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Soul, Tongue, Next

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Sermons”, p.314

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• All you're supposed to do is every once in a while give the boys a little tea and sympathy.

  Robert Anderson

  Boys, Giving, Tea

  Tea and Sympathy, act 1 (1953)

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• The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life

  Lucan

  Death, Men, Grieving

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