Sympathy Quotes

Grief is the price we pay for love.

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

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

A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle.

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

Something that's seldom appreciated about me is that I am in sympathy with a great deal of what Marx wrote, except that I'm on the side of the bourgeoisie.

Okay, so, sometimes in life, I can be a score-keeper - someone who keeps track of what he gives and what he gets in return. An annoying quality, to say the least, and I'm sure my wife has your sympathy, but it's made me highly attuned to when and where credit is due.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Manhattan's probably one of the bluest parts in the country, and Indiana's definitely one of the redder states. I have sympathy for both sides.

There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. 'Sympathy For The Devil' is a great one.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.

What is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one's neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love of tattling? Which is worse, this habit, or keeping one's self so absorbed intellectually as to forget the sufferings and cares of others, to lose sympathy through having too much to think about?

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.

I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name.

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.

If I'm feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.

When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.

In the eyes of the Catholic Church, abortion is a tragedy. Our principle objective must be to try and win greater sympathy for that perspective and for the value of human life from its beginnings.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

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.

You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

I'm not looking for sympathy at all.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior.

I think we lost a great deal of sympathy and support with the way in which the crisis was handled, most importantly I think when we appeared to be grasping for too much at one time instead of identifying our priorities in a much more responsible fashion.

I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life.

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

Queen Paola and I will never forget the ties that have grown between the people and us during the course of the years. Thank you for your confidence, tokens of sympathy and support, sometimes even with a little criticism. We always loved you.

A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous.

The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.

I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.

It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't.

Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources.

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.

I have a lot of sympathy with the ideas and frustration of the Occupy movement. I absolutely agree with the sense that Wall Street has brought an economic calamity to the middle class and that no one has been held accountable.

You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.

Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!

Society doesn't have much sympathy for the alcoholic. Drug addicts are beginning to be seen more as victims, but because alcohol is legal, people are less inclined to show sympathy and offer treatment.