Quotes About Sympathy

The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.

To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life.

If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.

September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.

Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.

Why is that when people become ill and have something wrong with any of their organs, they get sympathy from other people - except when that organ is their brain?

The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.

Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.

Needs there groan a world in anguish just to teach us sympathy?

Israel also deprived the world of its chance of shedding tears of genuine sympathy over her destruction. The world resents this; it likes to feel noble and sympathetic.

Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.

There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.

O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?

In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.

With empathy, I'm fully with them, not full of them — that's sympathy.

Who can tell what metals the gods use in forging the subtle bond which we call sympathy, which we might as well call love.

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.

I decided that expressionism was a cheap way of getting a reaction - show anybody ripped apart, and you get sympathy. I was deliberately trying to show the human body as whole and relatively healthy.

We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility

The idea is to develop sympathy for your own confusion.

Union of hearts, not hands, does a marriage make, and sympathy of mind keeps love awake.

I have always felt sympathy towards the biologists who accept to debate creationists. Now I also understand them better; one can fight opinions, not articles of faith.

Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed on the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.