Sympathy Quotes

“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

“One often calms one's grief by recounting it.”

— Pierre Corneille

“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.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Joni Mitchell

“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

“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.”

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

“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.”

— Aneurin Bevan

“The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.”

— James Russell Lowell

“Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.”

— Lech Walesa

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

— Orison Swett Marden

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

— Edward Gibbon

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.”

— Ann Landers