“I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.”
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.
“Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.”
“I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.”
“Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.”
“I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.”
“Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.”
“If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.”
“It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”
“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.”
“If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.”
“Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.”
“I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.”
“It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.”
“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.”
“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”
“The only cure for grief is action.”