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Quotes About Sympathy

Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather sympathy we learn to feel for the pain of others.
~ Juan Gabriel
We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.
~ Helmut Kohl
The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
~ Arnold Bennett
The world is evolving from imperfection to perfection. It needs all love and sympathy; great tenderness and watchfulness are required from each one of us.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
The onlooker had better wipe the sympathy off his face. What he has seen is a revolution, not the home of little cogs and drones. What he has seen is the dormitory of the next managerial class.
~ William H. Whyte
Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy.
~ Bertrand Russell
Science can give mankind a better standard of living, better health and a better mental life, if mankind in turn gives science the sympathy and support so essential to its progress.
~ Vannevar Bush
The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people is not directed, as one might imagine, at our fearfulness. It is, perversely, an appeal to our sympathy.
~ Martha Stout
The reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer.
~ Mary Astor
God does not live in structures of stone or brick. He lives in soft hearts warm with sympathy and fragrant with universal love.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Sympathy, Love, Fortune... We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!
~ Anne Frank
Friendship cannot become permanent unless it becomes spiritual. There must be fellowship in the deepest things of the soul, community in the highest thoughts, sympathy with the best endeavors.
~ Hugh Black
Sympathy one receives for nothing, envy must be earned.
~ Robert Lembke
Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
~ Edith Stein
We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the heart: love, kindness, joy, understanding, sympathy, tolerance, forgiveness. . .
~ Wilferd Peterson
Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
~ Charles Darwin
A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
~ Frederick Douglass
I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Messenger of sympathy and love, Servant of parted friends, Consoler of the lonely, Bond of the scattered family, Enlarger of the common life.
~ Charles William Eliot
Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals.
~ Gretel Ehrlich
I am not a Zionist, nor am I am a practicing Jew, but I have a great deal of sympathy for my fellow Jews and a deep concern for the survival of Israel.
~ George Soros
Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.
~ Giovanni Boccaccio
Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.
~ Celia Green