Browsing Topic Best My Sympathy Quotes

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other – above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists ; for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead to desirable social change than highly centralized, dictatorial Communism .

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Earnestly I must exert myself in order to return as much as I have received.

A man is not completely born until he is dead.

Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.

It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; ’tis rather an embrio state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals?

No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.

There is no death, only a change of worlds.

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person’s place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies always went out to the weak, the suffering, and the poor. Realizing their sorrows I tried to relieve them in order that I myself might be relieved.

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

I have for the first time found what I can truly love- I have found you. You are my sympathy-my better self-my good angel-I am bound to you with a strong attachment.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

I have on numerous occasions, as you know, expressed my sympathy in the establishment of a National Home for the Jews in Palestine and, despite the set-backs caused by the disorders there during the last few years, I have been heartened by the progress which has been made and by the remarkable accomplishments of the Jewish settlers in that country.

The public is composed of numerous groups whose cry to us writers is: ‘Comfort me.’ ‘Amuse me.’ ‘Touch my sympathies.’ ‘Make me sad.’ ‘Make me dream.’ ‘Make me laugh.’ ‘Make me shiver.’ ‘Make me weep.’ ‘Make me think.’

A human life is a story told by God.

There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more return. Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn.

You wouldn’t see those sorts of decisions given in village cricket, let alone Test cricket. The England players have my sympathy.

I thought that perhaps the most creative mix for a society would be nine parts solid worker from institutions like MIT to one part poet from Marrakech, but in spite of the fact that I myself had been trained to be one of the solid workers, which meant that all of my sympathies lay with that group, I would not surrender the poet. The problem was to find him.

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

My sympathies have always been with the everyday people… the center of my photography.