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Quotes About Sympathy

I have for the first time found what I can truly love- I have found you. You are my sympathy-my better self-my good angel-I am bound to you with a strong attachment.
~ Charlotte Bronte
To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world--without friends or country, home or kindred.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
Keynes, far from being a wholehearted lover of freedom, viewed with some sympathy the fascist and Communist 'experiments' of the 1930s.
~ Ralph Raico
...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.
~ Helen Keller
I answered my father's demands for sympathy with silence.
~ Mason Cooley
Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.
~ James Mackintosh
Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.
~ John Ruskin
A sympathetic look always makes me feel sorry for myself.
~ Mason Cooley
Chekhov will seek out the key situation in the life of a cabman or a charwoman, and make them glow for a brief moment in the tender light of his sympathy.
~ Robert Wilson Lynd
Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
~ Andre Gide
There are hopes, the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred for words, they should only be known through the sympathy of hearts.
~ Charles Dickens
If you want sympathy, look for a friend, but if you want honesty, an enemy might be the best friend you ever had.
~ Tonya Hurley
His is a loving, tender hand, full of sympathy and compassion.
~ Dwight L. Moody
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
Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
The power to console is not within corporeal reach - though its attempt is precious.
~ Emily Dickinson
Barack Obama has exhibited sympathy, if not for the terrorists, then certainly for the Islamic supremacists.
~ Frank Gaffney
What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It is only kindred griefs that draw forth our tears, and each weeps really for himself.
~ Heinrich Heine
It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.
~ Oscar Wilde
I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
~ Haruki Murakami
Trump has officially changed his name to Ronald because he's such a clown, and in sympathy his toupée is changing its name to Bozo.
~ Michael R. Burch