“I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.”
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.
“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 will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.”
“If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.”
“When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.”
“People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.”
“The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.”
“If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.”
“Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.”
“All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.”
“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.”
“Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.”
“I'm not looking for sympathy at all.”
“Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.”
“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.”
“Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.”
“You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.”