“I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.”
Sympathy is the bridge between one person and another during the hardest moments. These quotes offer comfort, understanding, and the reassurance that grief and pain, while deeply personal, are also universally human.
“And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.”
“I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.”
“I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't.”
“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.”
“You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.”
“The more sympathy you give, the less you need.”
“Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.”
“It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”
“Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.”
“The only cure for grief is action.”
“All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.”
“The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.”
“And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.”
“Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.”
“Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.”
“I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.”