“The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.”
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sympathy
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“Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.”
“Excess of grief for the dead is madness for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.”
“One often calms one's grief by recounting it.”
“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.”
“Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.”
“You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.”
“If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.”
“The cure for sorrow is to learn something.”
“The only cure for grief is action.”
“A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.”
“To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.”
“Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.”
“Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.”
“The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.”
“I'm not looking for sympathy at all.”
“All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.”
“To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.”
“We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.”
“Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.”
“I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.”
“It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.”
“Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.”
“When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.”