Sympathy Quotes

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.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

More Sympathy Quotes

“Grief changes shape, but it never ends.”

Keanu Reeves

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Walt Whitman

“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.

“When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.”

George MacDonald

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

Malcolm Forbes

“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.”

Harry Browne

“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

“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.”

Lionel Blue

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

Oscar Wilde

“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

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

Ann Landers

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

Joni Mitchell

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