Sympathy Quotes - Page 16

• Tshe suffering of adversity does not degrade you but exalts you. Human tribulation teaches you; it does not destroy you. The more we are afflicted in this world, the greater is our assurance for the next. The more we sorrow in the present, ..the greater will be our joy in the future.

  Isidore of Seville

  Adversity, Joy, Suffering

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• By the law of nature, there is no pleasure in suffering; but divine love, when it reigns in a heart, makes it take delight in its sufferings.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Heart, Law, Suffering

  Saint Alphonsus de Liguori, Aeterna Press (2016). “The Way of Salvation and of Perfection”, p.138, Aeterna Press

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• The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.

  Anthony Storr

  Tea, Done, Damage

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• A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us-is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Eye, Comfort

  Charles Dickens (1866). “Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.296

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• Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.

  E. M. Forster

  Ifs

  E M Forster (2011). “Maurice”, p.175, Hachette UK

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• 'Oh, poor, poor fellow!' said Mrs. Elliot with a remorse that was sincere, though her congratulations would not have been.

  E. M. Forster

  Congratulations, Sincere, Poor

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.278, Delphi Classics

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• There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.

  Edith Wharton

  Attitude, Gold, Bankers

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• You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

  Haruki Murakami

  Birthday, Age, Tough

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• Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

  James Martineau

  Memories, Grief, Bereavement

  James Martineau (1843). “Endeavours After the Christian Life: Discourses”, p.64

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• Compassion, the fairest associate of the heart.

  Thomas Paine

  Condolences, Heart, Compassion

  Thomas Paine (1824). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: Secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution : to which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.315

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• I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me.

  Daniel Johns

  School, People, Sick

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

  William Wordsworth

  Strength, Time, Grief

  William Wordsworth, “Ode On Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood”

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Pain, Morbid, Modern

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Suffering, Easy

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

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Grief, Doe, Ends

  "Troades" by Seneca the Younger, 786, 1st century.

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• Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back out of the hole.

  Terence McKenna

  Black, Events, Horizon

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• Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Ties, Understanding, Together

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.58, tredition

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Understanding, Tolerance, Feelings

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• I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.

  A. N. Wilson

  Christian, Doubters, Honest

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• I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.

  Lech Walesa

  Army, Past, Silence

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• Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Patience, Kindness, Opportunity

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• Accept these grateful tears...For thee they flow, for thee...
  That ever felt another's woe.

  Homer

  Grateful, Tears, Woe

  Homer (1891). “The Iliad of Homer: Several Versions”, p.379, Library of Alexandria

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• Only one thing is necessary in your anguish: bear everything with resignation to the Divine Will; for this will help you to attain your eternal salvation. Hope with a lively faith and you will receive everything from Almighty God.

  Gerard Majella

  Divine Will, Bears, Helping

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• For the dead there are no more toils.

  Sophocles

  Death, Dying, Toil

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.127, University of Chicago Press

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• I thought she'd [her mother] offer me some sympathy. Instead, she said, 'Don't you ever call me crying again! You wanted to be in this business, so you better toughen up!' And I did.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Mother, Cry, Said

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