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Quotes About Sympathy

To enter into the hearts of men belongs to him who can explore the human heart.
~ Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
You never want to give a man a present when he's feeling good. You want to do it when he's down.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
Avoid the man without compassion, because he ain't a man surely!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man without compassion is the coldest thing ever in the universe!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A man has not seen a thing who has not felt it.
~ Henry David Thoreau
An American Negro, however deep his sympathies, or however bright his rage, ceases to be simply a black man when he faces a black man from Africa.
~ James A. Baldwin
Thoughts and prayers go out to Michael Weiner's family. A great leader and man. Going to be missed.
~ Joba Chamberlain
Other men's crosses are not my crosses.
~ John Donne
I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf.
~ George W. Bush
Okay, using the dreaded middle name is not the best way to forge a bond.
~ Adam Brody
There is strength in kindness.
~ Err:509
Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.
~ Paul Harris
Of course, there will be few people who are sympathetic but you don't become a great team overnight, no matter how much money you have at your disposal.
~ Frank Lampard
And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.
~ Meghan O'Rourke
Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.
~ Oscar Wilde
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
~ Henry David Thoreau
She had so deep a kinship with the trees, so intuitive a sympathy with leaf and flower, that it seemed as if the blood in her veins was not slow-moving human blood, but volatile sap.
~ Mary Webb, Gone to Earth
What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?
~ Eleanor Porter
She was better with animals than people. Give her a sick cat or dog, she was golden. Not so much with her own species.
~ N. Raines
A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.
~ Morris Raphael Cohen
Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.
~ Ayn Rand
... we can bear with great philosophy the sufferings of others, especially if we do not actually see them.
~ Albion Fellows Bacon
Those who can show love are always kind. Those who cannot show love cannot be kind.
~ Debasish Mridha