“I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. 'Sympathy For The Devil' is a great one.”
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.
“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.”
“I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. 'Sympathy For The Devil' is a great one.”
“And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.”
“One often calms one's grief by recounting it.”
“I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.”
“I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.”
“If the terrorists have the sympathy of people, it's much harder to find them. So we need people on our side, and that leads us to be responsible leaders of the world, show some concern with the problems.”
“If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.”
“The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.”
“Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.”
“Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.”
“It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”
“The only cure for grief is action.”
“Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.”
“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”
“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.”