We often do more good by our sympathy than by our labors. A man may lose position, influence, wealth, and even health, and yet live on in comfort, if with resignation; but there is one thing without which life becomes a burden--that is human sympathy.
Each person's grief journey is unique as a fingerprint or a snowflake.
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
But better far it is to speak One simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men.
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.
If we endure all things patiently and with gladness, thinking on the sufferings of our Blessed Lord, and bearing all for the love of Him: herein is perfect joy.
It's neat for Kyle to win,. . . I think you'd have sympathy for anybody if you put yourself in that situation and got taken out of the race car. But I have absolutely no information about what was going on.
A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity.
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
I'm not looking for sympathy, just understanding.
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.
Mr. Complete Lack of Sympathy
You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.
Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.
Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a certain utensil - well - well, nevermind.
He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men