Sympathy Quotes

“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.”

— George Soros

“Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Tears are the silent language of grief.”

— Voltaire

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

— A. N. Wilson

“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.”

— Wislawa Szymborska

“Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.”

— Orison Swett Marden

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

— Walt Whitman

“I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.”

— Marlo Thomas

“All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

— Conrad Black

“Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.”

— Joni Mitchell

“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.”

— Carl Hiaasen

“I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long.”

— Richard Russo

“The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.”

— James Russell Lowell

“The more sympathy you give, the less you need.”

— Malcolm Forbes