Sympathy Quotes - Page 5

• There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate.

  Seth Green

  Way, Gains, Unfortunate

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Ambrose

  Wicked, Harbors, Shipwreck

  "De bono mortis" by Ambrose, 8, 31, 387-391.

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• California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?

  Denis Kearney

  Rely Upon, California, Chinese

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• The light has gone out of my life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Condolences, Loss, Light

  Theodore Roosevelt (2014). “Forgotten Tales and Vanished Trails”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Men, Firsts

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• I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?

  Clyde Tombaugh

  People, Realizing, Young

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• The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

  Hermann Hesse

  Death, Sweet, Dying

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Hermann Hesse: A Pictorial Biography”, p.218, Macmillan

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• It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.

  Al Smith

  Law, People, Constitution

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• The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

  William James

  Friendship, Community, Individuality

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.144, 谷月社

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• It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

  Alan Hovhaness

  Thinking, Century, Hard

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• He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.

  S. J. Perelman

  Lips, Bites, Bits

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• There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.

  George Santayana

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.37, Рипол Классик

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• I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life.

  Major Taylor

  Knowing, Feelings, Serious

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• 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.

  George William Russell

  Life, Communication, Order

  "Open letter to the Masters of Dublin". The Irish Times, October 7, 1913.

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• We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Philosophy, Sensual, Action

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• Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Marriage, Divorce, Long

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.122, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored.

  Herman Melville

  Firsts, Strange, Possibility

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.455

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• Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he’d tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied.

  Charlaine Harris

  Sorry, Grandmother, Loved Ones

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.1137, Penguin

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• We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Evil

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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

  Men, Law, Cynical

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

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• When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over

  George MacDonald

  Thinking, Age, World

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.2761, Delphi Classics

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• I ask Thee for a thankful love,
  Through constant watching wise,
  To meet the glad with joyful smiles,
  And to wipe the weeping eyes,
  And a heart at leisure from itself,
  To soothe and sympathize.

  Anna Laetitia Waring

  Wise, Heart, Eye

  "Father I know that all my Life, Hymns and Meditations" by Anna Laetitia Waring, (p. 2), 1850.

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• Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

  Leigh Hunt

  Selfish, Hunting, People

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• A human life is a story told by God.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Condolences, Grief, Grieving

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  Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

  C. S. Lewis

  Regret, Fear, Moving Forward

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.124, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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