“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.”
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.
“We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.”
“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.”
“Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.”
“A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.”
“And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.”
“Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.”
“It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”
“To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.”
“Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.”
“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 think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.”
“The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.”