Sympathy Quotes

If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things.

Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.

Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.

Let nothing Disturb you, Let nothing frighten you, Though all things pass, God does not change. Patience wins all things. But he lacks nothing who possesses God; For God alone suffices.

I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love.

May tender memories soften your grief, May fond recollection bring you relief, And may you find comfort and peace in the thought Of the joy that knowing your loved one brought... For time and space can never divide Or keep your loved one from your side. When memory paints in colors true, the happy hours that belonged to you.

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.

After the clouds, the sunshine; after the winter, the spring; after the shower, the rainbow; for life is a changeable thing. After the night, the morning, bidding all darkness cease, after life's cares and sorrows, the comfort and sweetness of peace.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.

Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of Grace. The gift of Grace increases as the struggle increases.

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose whether we wish to use them to curse or to heal, to wound or to console.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

There is no reconciliation until you recognize the dignity of the other, until you see their view- you have to enter into the pain of the people. You've got to feel their need.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

There is no death, only a change of worlds.

...man can no more survive psychologically in a psychological milieu that does not respond empathetically to him, than he can survive physically in an atmosphere that contains no oxygen.

Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

If I can stop one heart from breaking…” Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I'll remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and to allow for the possibility that others may see something we have failed to see, or may see it more accurately. The simple purpose of the exchange program...is to erode the culturally rooted mistrust that sets nations against one another. The exchange program is not a panacea but an avenue of hope.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

By peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, without violence, and creatively- a never-ending process

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

Love is timeless.... Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

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.