Sympathy Quotes

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.

We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

For some moments in life there are no words.

Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians! [...] I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right and honorable to use any means under God's heaven to kill Indians.

Jesus, Thou art all compassion, pure unbounded love Thou art; Visit us with Thy salvation, enter every trembling heart.

Shed not for her a bitter tear; Nor give the heart to vain regret. Tis but the casket that lies here; the gem that fills it sparkles yet.

Love the heart that hurts you, but never hurt the heart that loves you.

Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality.

Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you.

He has not truly lived who has not lived for others, in sympathy and in harmony with his fellows.

We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly human.

The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.

Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.

The most natural, and, consequently, the truest and most intense of the human affections are those which arise in the heart as if by electric sympathy.

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

If we endure all things patiently and with gladness, thinking on the sufferings of our Blessed Lord, and bearing all for the love of Him: herein is perfect joy.

You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.

Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.

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.

He who steps on stones is glad to feel the smallest spray of moss beneath his feet.

'Sympathy for the Devil' is just another way of saying 'Compassionate Conservative'.

We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.

The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy, and Serenity.

If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.

Persons who have no desire to live have a very slight chance of recovery. We can continue to extend to them our love, sympathy, and prayers; but ultimately we must respect a person's decision to die.

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.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.

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.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Death cannot kill what never dies.

Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.

When you are sorrowful, look again.

Where there is great love there are always miracles.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

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.

A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.

Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.

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.

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.

Most sound work in films is done very quickly, and at the end of the schedule where it's just jammed together and you always wish that you had more sympathy.

Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy.

All my life I still have found, and I will forget it never; Every sorrow hath its bound, and no cross endures forever.

The reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer.

Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.

God does not live in structures of stone or brick. He lives in soft hearts warm with sympathy and fragrant with universal love.