Sympathy Quotes - Page 19

• Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.

  Harold Bloom

  Criticism, Goes On, Phases

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• Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

  A. A. Milne

  Relationship, Baby, Heart

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• It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring.

  Daniel Handler

  People, Rude, Trouble

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• one thing I don’t need is any more apologies i got sorry greetin me at my front door you can keep yrs i don’t know what to do wit em they don’t open doors or bring the sun back they don’t make me happy or get a mornin paper didn’t nobody stop usin my tears to wash cars cuz a sorry.

  Ntozake Shange

  Sorry, Apology, Doors

  Ntozake Shange, “'Sorry'”

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• From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Smile

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• In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.

  John of the Cross

  Suffering, Sorrow, Enlightened

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• That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don’t know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who’ve never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, contempt, and general indifference, and they call it love. Once you’ve felt what it means to love as you and I know it – the total passion for the total height – you’re incapable of anything less.

  Ayn Rand

  Love, Life, Dirty

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.572, Penguin

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• The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

  Irving Babbitt

  Balance, Humanist, Selection

  Irving Babbitt (1908). “Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities”

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• I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

  Joseph Addison

  Indulge In, Giving, Sorrow

  Mr. Joseph Addison, Mr. James Thomson, Nathaniel Lee, William Shakespeare (1730). “A Collection of the Best English Plays, Chosen Out of All the Best Authors..: Vol. III.”, p.62

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• Most people are on the world, not in it-- having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them-- undiffused seporate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but seporate.

  John Muir

  People, Touching, Yosemite

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• Jesus, Thou art all compassion, pure unbounded love Thou art; Visit us with Thy salvation, enter every trembling heart.

  Charles Wesley

  Jesus, Art, Compassion

  1747 'Love Divine', collected in Hymns for those that Seek...Redemption.

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• Life and death are one thread,
  the same line viewed from different sides.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Death, Spiritual

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• Even a witch wants sympathy.

  Franny Billingsley

  Want, Witch

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.130, A&C Black

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• The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sports, Condolences, Tides

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1076, Delphi Classics

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• A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Death, Wisdom

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.39, Broadway Books

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• My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.

  Robert E. Lee

  Death, Soulmate, Heart

  Robert E. Lee (2007). “Recollections and Letters of Robert E. Lee”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Men, Giving, Sorrow

  Alexandre Dumas (2015). “THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO: Classic French Literature”, p.912, 谷月社

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• Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Change, Death

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 7 (1838)

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• We all have to announce our full solidarity with the struggle of those seeking freedom and justice in Syria, and translate this sympathy into a clear political vision that supports a peaceful transition to a democratic system of rule that reflects the demands of the Syrian people for freedom.

  Mohammed Morsi

  Struggle, People, Justice

  "Morsi criticises Syria at Tehran meeting". www.aljazeera.com. August 30, 2012.

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• Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold; a woman adds to it her sympathy.

  Ernest Legouve

  Men, Giving, Gold

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• She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly believed I did not.

  Anne Bronte

  Thinking, Doubt, Want

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.691, Penguin

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• Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Mean, Angel, Light

  Jeanette Winterson (1995). “Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd”, Knopf

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• When you need someone To talk to Or just to be with you Remember there is someone close by That someone is me

  Margaret Jones

  Needs, Remember

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• If we endure all things patiently and with gladness, thinking on the sufferings of our Blessed Lord, and bearing all for the love of Him: herein is perfect joy.

  Francis of Assisi

  Blessed, Thinking, Perfect

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

  Brownie McGhee

  Guitar, Hell, Loud

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