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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.

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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

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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

8

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

7

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

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

Quotes by Woodrow Wilson

5

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

4

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

Quotes by William Wordsworth

3

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

Quotes by William R. Alger

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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

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

Quotes by Washington Irving

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.