My Sympathy Quotes

• There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

  Dante Alighieri

  Inspirational, Happiness, Sad

  Dante Alighieri, Stanley Lombardo (2009). “Inferno”, p.26, Hackett Publishing

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• Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

  Thomas Moore

  Sympathy, Death, Spiritual

  Thomas Moore (1861). “Poetical works”, p.304

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• We need never be ashamed of our tears.

  Charles Dickens

  Sad, Break Up, Breakup

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Great Expectations”, Xist Publishing

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• If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sympathy, Condolences, Would Be

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.216, Wordsworth Editions

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• To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Sympathy, Profound, Desire

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Elizabeth Cheresh Allen (1994). “The essential Turgenev”, Northwestern Univ Pr

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• 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

  Love, Sympathy, Death

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 2, l. 17

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• The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle

  John Ruskin

  Sympathy, Communication, Secret

  John Ruskin (1872). “Lectures on Art, Delivered Before the University of Oxford in Hilary Term, 1870”, p.72

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• Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.

  Edmund Burke

  Sympathy, Condolences, Passion

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• When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Soccer

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• 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.

  William Wordsworth

  Strength, Sympathy, Time

  William Wordsworth, “Ode On Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood”

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• Tears are God's gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.

  Rita Schiano

  Sympathy, Grief, Healing

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• Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I'll remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Happiness, Sympathy, Laughter

  "Fictional character: Reverend Robert Alden". TV Series "Little House on the Prairie" ("Remember Me: Part 1", 1975), www.imdb.com. 1974–1983.

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• Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Motivational, Happy, Death

  Codice Trivulziano 281

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

  Jesse Jackson

  Sympathy, Sweat, Effort

  "The preacher comes to town" by Laura Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2005.

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• From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Smile

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• He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sympathy, Condolences, Losing A Loved One

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “Hyperion: A Romance”, p.233

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• Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Love, Sympathy, Valentines Day

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2001). “On the Constitution of the Church and State”, p.348, Classic Books Company

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• Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.

  John Galsworthy

  Dog, Loss, Animal

  John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.3602, Delphi Classics

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• Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

  Norman Cousins

  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

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• As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Codice Trivulziano 281

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• A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

  Homer

  Friendship, Family, Sympathy

  Homer (1983). “The Odyssey”, Outlet

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• The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Sympathy, Kindness, Inspiration

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• Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Animal

  Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)”, p.145, Diversion Books

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• It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring.

  Daniel Handler

  Sympathy, People, Rude

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