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Quotes About Sympathy

Whenever someone says: 'Don't cry.' I always cry harder...
~ Unknown
Laugh and the world laughs with you, Weep, and you weep alone; For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart do not know how to laugh either.
~ Golda Meir
People never around when you are down but they are present when you got a big check.
~ Unknown
Any friend who can feel your pain with you deserves to be kept as your BEST FRIEND.
~ Terry Mark
As long as you have one friend that understands you, you're good.
~ Unknown
The real meaning of a true FRIENDSHIP should be UNDERSTANDING.
~ Terry Mark
Friendship is like the relationship between the hand and the eyes. When the hand gets hurt, the eye cries and when the eye cries the hand wipes its tears.
~ Unknown
A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
~ Homer
Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.
~ Lucan
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
~ Sallust
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.
~ Jane Austen
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You, too? Thought I was the only one
~ Unknown
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.
~ Oscar Wilde
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
My friends don't understand what I see in him. They all wonder why. They don't understand that he can make me smile even when it's the worst day of my life. They just don't get him or me, but him & I always understood each other. My friends just don't understand why I love him the way I do. I'll probably never know myself.
~ Unknown
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
~ George Santayana
Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
~ Unknown
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one
~ Unknown
Good friends and good times help make painful issues a little easier to deal with.
~ Unknown