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.

“It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.”

Jerome K. Jerome

More Sympathy Quotes

“I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. 'Sympathy For The Devil' is a great one.”

Hugh Jackman

“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

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

A. N. Wilson

“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

“If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.”

Dirk Benedict

“The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.”

Irving Babbitt

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Joni Mitchell

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.”

Dirk Benedict

“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”

William Blake

“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

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