“The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.”
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.
“All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.”
“The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.”
“We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.”
“Grief changes shape, but it never ends.”
“Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.”
“We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.”
“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.”
“The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.”
“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.”
“I'm not looking for sympathy at all.”
“The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.”
“Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.”
“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.”
“If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.”
“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”