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Sympathy Quotes

Gentle words for hard moments.

This page gathers reflections on how people respond to sorrow and loss, including the idea that mourning can sharpen rather than dull the mind. Several lines touch on how we Feel and the value of walking alongside someone rather than past them.

My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.

Quotes by Agnes Smedley

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Agatha Christie

I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.

Quotes by A. N. Wilson

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

Quotes by Xenophon

Feel Quotes

Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

Quotes by Woodrow Wilson

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in...

Quotes by William Wordsworth

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

Quotes by William Wordsworth

A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.

Quotes by William R. Alger

This circus that's advertised to show and furnish a little amusement for us heathens is owned by a woman, one whose pluck catches my sympathy every time.

Quotes by Wild Bill Hickok

Grief Quotes

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

Quotes by Washington Irving

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

Walt Whitman

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

Quotes by W. H. Davies

In the eyes of the Catholic Church, abortion is a tragedy. Our principle objective must be to try and win greater sympathy for that perspective and for the value of human life from its beginnings.

Quotes by Vincent Nichols

It was only on sympathy wave had KCR won the elections in 2014 and became the chief minister.

Quotes by Vijayashanti

Life Quotes

This sympathy is not translated into force against the British government because it is not like the anti- apartheid movement which had a high profile here and Mandela is a more engaging figure than Yasser Arafat.

Quotes by Tom Paulin

September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.

Quotes by Tom Ford

The worst nickname I ever had was Tim Pig-ears-Smith. I had big ears. When I was younger, it was more pronounced. So I felt huge sympathy towards Prince Charles over that.

Quotes by Tim Pigott-Smith

I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.

Quotes by Tim Kaine

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

Quotes by Thomas Moore

Like Quotes

I'm completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer perceives being alive in the world.

Quotes by Thomas Ligotti

Other entries caution against sympathy tipping into excess, since grief carried too far can hurt the living more than honor the dead. For related reading, see our Grief and Life collections.