Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.
We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.
You come down here to console me. That is charming of you. You find me consoled, and you are furious. How like a sympathetic person!
Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.
What really arouses indignation against suffering is not suffering as such but the senselessness of suffering...
Remember how strong we are in our happiness and how weak he is in his misery!
Such actions are beyond praise: it is the perfume of such sweet and noble human sympathy that makes this wild beasts' cage a world habitable for men.
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.
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
