Sympathy Quotes - Page 13

• Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.

  Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

  Expression, Recognition, Wells

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• We heard the sad news today And had to send this card to say Our thoughts and prayers go out to you There's not lot a lot that we can do But if you need just anything Pick up the phone, give us a ring Even though we're far apart We're with you in spirit and in heart And hope that you will find, at length The love of family will give you strength.

  Margaret Jones

  Prayer, Heart, Family Love

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• I will keep faith with death in my heart... For the sake of goodness, for the sake of love, Let no man's heart be ruled by death... The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life; to regard it, with the understanding and the .emotions, as the inviolable condition of life.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Religious, Heart, Men

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• Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

  Edward Gibbon

  Suffering, Misery, Cold

  'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' (1776-88) ch. 49

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• To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Motivational, Giving

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• The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.

  Goldwin Smith

  Party, Humanity, Novelists

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• There are times when sympathy is as necessary as the air we breathe.

  Rose Pastor Stokes

  Compassion, Air, Breathe

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• I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.

  Lionel Blue

  Lessons, Lectures, Sticks

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• After the clouds, the sunshine; after the winter, the spring; after the shower, the rainbow; for life is a changeable thing. After the night, the morning, bidding all darkness cease, after life's cares and sorrows, the comfort and sweetness of peace.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Morning, Spring, Condolences

  Helen Steiner Rice (2004). “The Poems and Prayers of Helen Steiner Rice”, p.134, Revell

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• It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Diversity, Tolerance

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

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• There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous.

  Les Aspin

  Hussein, Administration, Problem

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• The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Sorrow, Stronger, Prosperity

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3952, Delphi Classics

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• even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt each other by their very attempts at sympathy or consolation. We can bear no hand on our bruises.

  George Eliot

  Hurt, Hands, Suffering

  George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.44, Cambridge University Press

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• in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.

  George Eliot

  Expression, Certain, Crisis

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6797, Delphi Classics

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• The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Peace, People, Diversity

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.868, Modern Library

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• Reverence awakens in the soul a sympathetic power through which we attract qualities in the beings around us, which would otherwise remain concealed.

  Rudolf Steiner

  God, Soul, Quality

  Rudolf Steiner (2015). “How to Know Higher Worlds”, p.7, RSP

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• When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Simple, Men, Wild Roses

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.98, Applewood Books

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• Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Light, Giving, Atoms

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• The power to console is not within corporeal reach - though its attempt is precious.

  Emily Dickinson

  Compassion, Console

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.322, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

  Dirk Benedict

  Sorrow, Matter, Faces

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• It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

  F. H. Bradley

  Wise, Suffering, Needs

  "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley (Aphorism No. 22), 1930.

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• Far better one unpurchased heart than glory's proudest name.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Heart, Names, Glory

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1851). “Poems”, p.44

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• To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own soul.

  William Mountford

  Communication, Men, Compassion

  William Mountford, Frederic Dan Huntington (1850). “Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth”, p.213

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• And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief.

  William C. Bryant

  Grief, Should Have, Mourning

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Death Of The Flowers”

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• Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with roses as with coals.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Rose, Feelings, Sides

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