What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers!
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.
Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.
Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.
I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others.
Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.
After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.
Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
I believe that everyone can appreciate the right of a family to grieve the loss of a loved one in peace, regardless of anyone’s position on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
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.
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.
In Japanese culture, there is a belief that God is everywhere – in mountains, trees, rocks, even in our sympathy for robots or Hello Kitty toys.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
I never ask for mercy and seek no one’s sympathy.
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.
Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.
Any other illness, any other disease that we’re faced with, there’s sympathy and understanding. We get help for those. With mental illness, our go-to is to categorize them as, ‘Oh, they’re crazy,’ to belittle the problem.
To avoid becoming chronically unemployed, people need more than platitudes offering sympathy. Career reinvention requires encouragement and guidance.
There’s no greater way to gain an audience’s sympathy than by being unfortunate.
I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they’d take sympathy on me.
