Great sympathy quotes of all time
“A human life is a story told by God.” — Hans Christian Andersen,sympathy quotes
“A sincere friend conceals all your deformities, deceives and convince others that you are extremely perfect, the insincere will tell the truth of estruction, leave you open for others to glare and laugh.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson,sympathy quotes
“A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times. ”― Alfred Lord Tennyson,sympathy quotes
“A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero,sympathy quotes
“A true friend doesn't have guts; they beat you up and later plead with you to beat them back.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson,sympathy quotes
“Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.” — La Rochefoucauld,sympathy quotes
“All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.”-Samuel Taylor Coleridge,sympathy quotes
“Although it's difficult today to see beyond the sorrow, May looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow. ” — Author Unknown
“And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.” — John Henry Newman,sympathy quotes
“Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief” -William Blake,sympathy quotes
“Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.” -George S. Patton,sympathy quotes
“Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.” ― Justin Timberlake,sympathy quotes
“Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels.” ― Jeanette Winterson,sympathy quotes
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.”― From a Headstone in Ireland,sympathy quotes
“Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on the earth.” ― Elisabeth Kubler-Ross,sympathy quotes
“Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe. ”-Saint Terese of Lisieux,sympathy quotes
“Every one can master a grief but he that has it.” ― William Shakespeare,sympathy quotes
“God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.”-Albert Camus,sympathy quotes
“Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.” ― Criss Jami,sympathy quotes
“Grief makes one hour ten.”― William Shakespeare,sympathy quotes
“He kept at true good humor's mark The social flow of pleasure's tide: He never made a brow look dark, Nor caused a tear, but when he died. ” — Thomas Love Peacock,sympathy quotes
“He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels. ” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,sympathy quotes
“He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man. ” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery,sympathy quotes
“Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.” -Marquis De Sade,sympathy quotes
“I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him… The land of tears is so mysterious.”― Antoine de Saint-Exupery,sympathy quotes
“I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy,sympathy quotes
“I walk with a purpose. And a limp. (The limp helps serve my purpose, which is to gain sympathy.)” ― Jarod Kintz,sympathy quotes
“I’m not exactly sympathetic, but I do have a big heart. I have to, to be able to pump all the blood required to operate my massive penis.” ― Jarod Kintz
“If tears could build a stairway,And memories a lane,I’d walk right up to Heaven，And bring you home again.” — Author Unknown,sympathy quotes
“If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly become the objects of pity.”-Italian Proverb
“If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. ”― Oscar Wilde,sympathy quotes
“If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.” ― David Sedaris,sympathy quotes
“In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. ” — Robert Ingersoll,sympathy quotes
“It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring.” ― Lemony Snicket,sympathy quotes
“It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.” — Colette
“Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.”― Robert Louis Stevenson,sympathy quotes
“Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.”― Criss Jami, Killosophy,sympathy quotes
“Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.” -B. R. Hayden,sympathy quotes
“Memory nourishes the heart, and grief abates. ”― Marcel Proust
“More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.” -George Eliot,sympathy quotes
“My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul”― William Shakespeare
“My heart is small, like a love of buttons or black pepper.” ― S. Jane Sloat,sympathy quotes
“Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother. ”― Jane Welsh Carlyle
“Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.” ― Edmund Burke,sympathy quotes
“Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.” -Jane Austen
“None of us can choose where we shall love…” ― Susan Kay, Phantom,sympathy quotes
“Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains. ”― Kahlil Gibran
“One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.” -Jean Anouilh,sympathy quotes
“Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Overheard at a gravesite: "And they all said ’I’m sorry for your loss,’ as if you were someone who could ever be taken from me." ” — Robert Brault
“Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.” ― Dorothy Thompson
“People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim. ”― Ann Landers,sympathy quotes
“Perhaps they are not the stars, but rather openings in Heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy. ” — Author Unknown
“Perhaps, they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy.” ― Eskimo legend
“Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.”-Oliver Goldsmith,sympathy quotes
“Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.” -Josh Billings
“Pity is a thing often vowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.”-Charles Caleb Colton,sympathy quotes
“Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong.”-Sir Edwin Arnold,sympathy quotes
“Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.” ― Laura Ingalls Wilder
“Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive.” ― Charlotte Bront
“Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.” -Johann von Goethe,sympathy quotes
“Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.” ― Thomas Aquinas,sympathy quotes
“Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.” ― Victor Hugo
“Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.”-Amos Bronson Alcott
“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.” ― Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde
“Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths. ”-George Eliot,sympathy quotes
“Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson,sympathy quotes
“Sympathy is never wasted except when you give it to yourself.”-John W. Draper,sympathy quotes
“Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.”-Henri Frederic Amiel,sympathy quotes
“Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.” ― Dr. Charles Henry Parkhurst
“Tears are God’s gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow. ” — Rita Schiano
“Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.” ― Julie Burchill,sympathy quotes
“Tears are the silent language of grief.” ― Voltaire,sympathy quotes
“The angels are always near to those who are grieving, to whisper to them that their loved ones are safe in the hand of God.” — Eileen Elias Freeman
“The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. ”― William James
“The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.” -Catharine Esther Beecher
“The people that I care about are the people out there on the street. I can identify with them.”-Princess of Wales Diana,sympathy quotes
“The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The strongest have their moments of fatigue.” -Friedrich Nietzsche,sympathy quotes
“The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.” -George Eliot,sympathy quotes
“Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.” — Terri Guillemets
“Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves. ” -Randolph Churchill
“Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower, We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.” -William Wordsworth
“Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.” ― Bram Stoker, Dracula,sympathy quotes
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”― Thomas Campbell,sympathy quotes
“Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.” — Emily Dickinson
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” — Kenji Miyazawa,sympathy quotes
“When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
“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.” — William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing — deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.”-John Galsworthy
“When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” — Author Unknown,sympathy quotes
“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”― William Shakespeare,sympathy quotes
“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.” — Khalil Gibran
“While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.”— Samuel Johnson
“While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. ” — John Taylor
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.” ― Corrie Ten Boom,sympathy quotes