My Sympathy Quotes - Page 4

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

  Daniel Handler

  Sympathy, People, Rude

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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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• I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Strong, Powerful, Spring

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.337, Simon and Schuster

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• Art, although produced by man's hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source out of our soul.....My sympathies in the literary as well as in the artistic field are drawn most strongly to those artists in whom I see most the working of the soul.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Men, Hands

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• If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Kindness, Grateful, Long

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• I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies always went out to the weak, the suffering, and the poor. Realizing their sorrows I tried to relieve them in order that I myself might be relieved.

  Clarence Darrow

  Life, Order, Vivid Imagination

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.38, Lulu.com

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• I never ride horseback now because my sympathy with the under-dog is too keen. After we have a gone a few blocks, I always dismount and say to the horse: 'We'll walk it together, old dear.

  Marie Dressler

  Dog, Horse, Block

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• The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don’t. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.

  Paulo Coelho

  Hard Times, Trying, World

  "Aleph". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2011.

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• I have on numerous occasions, as you know, expressed my sympathy in the establishment of a National Home for the Jews in Palestine and, despite the set-backs caused by the disorders there during the last few years, I have been heartened by the progress which has been made and by the remarkable accomplishments of the Jewish settlers in that country.

  Herbert Hoover

  Country, Home, Israel

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• There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.

  Edith Wharton

  Sympathy, Attitude, Gold

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• You wouldn't see those sorts of decisions given in village cricket, let alone Test cricket. The England players have my sympathy.

  Ian Botham

  Player, Decision, Village

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• I thought that perhaps the most creative mix for a society would be nine parts solid worker from institutions like MIT to one part poet from Marrakech, but in spite of the fact that I myself had been trained to be one of the solid workers, which meant that all of my sympathies lay with that group, I would not surrender the poet. The problem was to find him.

  James A. Michener

  Creative, Groups, Would Be

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• My sympathies have always been with the everyday people... the center of my photography.

  Jerome Liebling

  Photography, People, Everyday

  Jerome Liebling, Carroll T. Hartwell, Ken Burns, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Photographers' Gallery (1995). “The people, yes”

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• I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As a human being, I would like to express my sympathies, and also as prime minister of Japan I need to apologize to them.

  Shinzo Abe

  Taken, Heart, Japan

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• My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists ; for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead to desirable social change than highly centralized, dictatorial Communism .

  Aldous Huxley

  Government, Sides, Anarchist

  Aldous Huxley (1970). “Letters of Aldous Huxley”

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• I have no commiseration for princes. My sympathies are reserved for the great mass of mankind ….

  Henry Clay

  Mass, Mankind, Reserved

  Calvin Colton, Henry Clay (1857). “The Life, Correspondence, and Speeches of Henry Clay: In Six Volumes”, p.210

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• When Emerson's library was burning at Concord, I went to him as he stood with the firelight on his strong, sweet face, and endeavored to express my sympathy for the loss of his most valued possessions, but he answered cheerily, 'Never mind, Louisa, see what a beautiful blaze they make! We will enjoy that now.' The lesson was one never forgotten and in the varied lessons that have come to me I have learned to look for something beautiful and bright.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Beauty, Beautiful, Sweet

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• Your brother kills you." Fett hopped tpo his feet as lightly as any unarmoured jedi apprentice, the n added," Some things are worsse thean death. I know that better than anyone, except maybe Sintas-and Han Solo. Send your father my sympathies.

  Troy Denning

  Brother, Father, Feet

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• If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories.

  Susan Sontag

  Dream, Self, Literature

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.147, Macmillan

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• The public is composed of numerous groups whose cry to us writers is: 'Comfort me.' 'Amuse me.' 'Touch my sympathies.' 'Make me sad.' 'Make me dream.' 'Make me laugh.' 'Make me shiver.' 'Make me weep.' 'Make me think.'

  Guy de Maupassant

  Dream, Thinking, Laughing

  Guy de Maupassant (1917). “Pierre and Jean: And Other Stories”

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• I have for the first time found what I can truly love- I have found you. You are my sympathy-my better self-my good angel-I am bound to you with a strong attachment.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Love, Strong, Angel

  Charlotte Bronte (2015). “Jane Eyre, an Autobiography: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.395, 谷月社

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• The Iraqis had paid a terrible price for Saddam's folly (in the Gulf War). But looking at the devastation they left behind (in Kuwait), my sympathy was limited.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Kuwait, Devastation

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• My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Class, People, Working Class

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