Sympathy Quotes
Some collection of sympathy quotes and sayings.
“Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.”
~ Dr. Charles Henry Parkhurst
“Pain has an Element of Blank
It cannot recollect
When it began or if there were
A time when it was not”
~ Emily Dickinson
“Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart”
~Edmund Burke
“And with the morn those angel faces smile, Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.”
~John Henry Newman
“Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold; a woman adds to it her sympathy.”
~ Ernest Wilfrid LeGouve
“We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility.”
~William Hazlitt
“The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.”
~ Kahlil Gibran
“Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower, We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.”
~ William Wordsworth
“To be in one’s own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness”
~ Confucius
“The greatest pleasures of which the human mind is susceptible are the pleasures of consciousness and sympathy.”
~ Parke Godwin
“A sympathy in choice.”
~ William Shakespeare
“The man who melts with social sympathy, though not allied,Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen.”
~ Euripides
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”
~Thomas Campbell
“To rejoice in another’s prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another’s grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.”
~ Tryon Edwards
To rejoice in another’s prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another’s grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.”
~Tryon Edwards
And a sweet sympathy Poem.
“He kept at true good humour’s mark
The social flow of pleasure’s tide:
He never made a brow look dark,
Nor caused a tear, but when he died.”
~Thomas Love Peacock
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