“Grief changes shape, but it never ends.”
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.”
“Grief changes shape, but it never ends.”
“Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.”
“The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.”
“And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.”
“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.”
“When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.”
“The more sympathy you give, the less you need.”
“Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources.”
“One often calms one's grief by recounting it.”
“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.”
“I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.”
“If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.”
“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.”
“People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.”
“Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.”