“We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.”
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.
“I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.”
“We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.”
“Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.”
“Grief changes shape, but it never ends.”
“The only cure for grief is action.”
“The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.”
“Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.”
“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.”
“Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.”
“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.”
“And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.”
“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
“It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”
“If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.”
“Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.”
“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”