Sympathy Quotes

“Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.”

— Edward Gibbon

“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.”

— Meister Eckhart

“Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.”

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.”

— Conrad Black

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”

— William Shakespeare

“And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.”

— Walt Whitman

“I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. 'Sympathy For The Devil' is a great one.”

— Hugh Jackman

“It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“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.”

— Alton Brown

“I'm not looking for sympathy at all.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.”

— Oscar Wilde

“I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.”

— A. N. Wilson

“We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.”

— Confucius