Deep Sympathy Quotes

• 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.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Sympathy, Past, History

  "Gerry Adams: Queen's Ireland regret not enough", www.cnn.com. May 19, 2011.

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sympathy, Men, Law

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.52, Heron Dance Press

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• With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence - o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!

  Thomas Moore

  Sympathy, Broken Heart, Pain

  Thomas Moore (1835). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Including Melodies, Ballads, Etc”, p.40

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• I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sympathy, War, Soul

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.14, David M Gross

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• To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.

  Mark Twain

  Heart, Eye, House

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Letters of Mark Twain”, p.251, 1st World Publishing

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• Obviously, Jay-Z is one of the greatest entertainers of the world today. Not only is he a remarkable rhetorical genius, he's also a man of deep sympathy and empathy for those who are lost and vulnerable, but especially under-educated youth of all cultures and stripes.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Men, Empathy, Stripes

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