“Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.”
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“You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.”
“Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.”
“Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.”
“I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.”
“Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy sweat will get you change.”
“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.”
“There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.”
“Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.”
“A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.”
“I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.”
“Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.”
“I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?”
“Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.”
“There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.”
“Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.”
“According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people but it is always your own happiness you seek.”
“September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.”
“It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.”
“The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.”
“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.”
“When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.”
“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.”
“Grief is the price we pay for love.”