Sympathy Quotes - Page 22

• But better far it is to speak
  One simple word, which now and then
  Shall waken their free nature in the weak
  And friendless sons of men.

  James Russell Lowell

  Son, Simple, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.40

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• It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul by their true grandeur.

  Madame de Stael

  Art, Dear Ones, Soul

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• Women have a smile for every joy, a tear for every sorrow, a consolation for every grief, an excuse for every fault, a prayer for every misfortune, and encouragement for every hope.

  Germain-Francois Poullain de Saint-Foix

  Encouragement, Prayer, Grief

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• Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

  Michael Gove

  Children, Empathy, Culture

  "Michael Gove proposes teaching foreign languages from age five" by Patrick Wintour and Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

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• The reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer.

  Mary Astor

  Pain, People, Killers

  Mary Astor (1968). “A Place Called Saturday”

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• I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.

  John Irving

  Laughter, People, Facts

  John Irving (1978). “The world according to Garp”, Pocket

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• News reports can overwhelm us. We can be appalled, we can sympathise. But what is hard to grasp is the sense that, at this moment, people are working, organising - not just at an executive level, but on the floor, in the warehouse. A man is packing a box of oral rehydration tablets; maternity kits are being prepared; education kits are being packed. And somewhere, tomorrow, those boxes will be unpacked and a child with life-threatening diarrhoea will be saved, a baby will be born in more hygienic circumstances, a girl will receive her first exercise book and her first pencil.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Girl, Baby, Children

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• As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.

  William James

  Lying, Justice, Political

  William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.284, Harvard University Press

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• Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others.

  Mason Cooley

  Self, Self Pity, Pity

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• In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Fishing, History

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.66, Harvard University Press

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• Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hands, Solitude, Independence

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• Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in our joy: when others are happy they have nothing to do, they become superfluous and lose their feeling of superiority, and so they easily show their displeasure.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Joy, Feelings, Helping

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• We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Laughing, Cry

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• Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women are they, whose sympathies have had the widest culture, whose aims do not end with self, whose philanthropy, though centrifugal, reaches around the globe.

  Frances E. Willard

  Men, Self, Progress

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• Peace of heart that is won by refusing to bear the common yoke of human sympathy is a peace unworthy of a Christian. To seek tranquility by stopping our ears to the cries of human pain is to make ourselves not Christian but a kind of degenerate stoic having no relation either to stoicism or Christianity.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Pain, Heart

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• Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a certain utensil - well - well, nevermind.

  Agatha Christie

  Drunk, Judging, Doe

  Agatha Christie (1977). “Starring Miss Marple”, Dodd Mead

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• The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.

  Albert Pike

  Law Of Attraction, Principles, Movement

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• ... the hey-day of a woman's life is on the shady side of fifty, when the vital forces heretofore expended in other ways are garnered in the brain, when their thoughts and sentiments flow out in broader channels, when philanthropy takes the place of family selfishness, and when from the depths of poverty and suffering the wail of humanity grows as pathetic to their ears as once was the cry of their own children.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Children, Humanity, Suffering

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2016). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton: As Revealed in Her Letters & Diary (Abridged)”, p.233, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• No one likes the fellow who is all rogue, but we'll forgive him almost anything if there is warmth of human sympathy underneath his rogueries. The immortal types of comedy are just such men.

  W. C. Fields

  Men, Forgiving, Likes

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• I answered my father's demands for sympathy with silence.

  Mason Cooley

  Father, Silence, Demand

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• We know that you must be very Upset and sad But just to let you know That we are here for you Should you need Help and support At this very sad and hard time That you must be going through

  Julie McGregor

  Hard Times, Help And Support, Upset

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• I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.

  Conrad Black

  Mercy, Asks

  "Interview with Conrad Black, Former Federal Prisoner and Millionaire Media Magnate". Interview with Paul Wright, www.prisonlegalnews.org. September 15, 2012.

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