One often calms one's grief by recounting it. Pierre Corneille on sympathy
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. Jerome K. Jerome on sympathy
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good. Harriet Beecher Stowe on sympathy
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain. Anne Grant on sympathy
You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be. Nigella Lawson on sympathy
If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point. Dirk Benedict on sympathy
Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile. Jean Giraudoux on sympathy
The cure for sorrow is to learn something. Barbara Sher on sympathy
Grief is only the memory of widowed affections. James Martineau on sympathy
Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul. Martin Luther King, Jr. on sympathy
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better. Oscar Wilde on sympathy
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature. Henry David Thoreau on sympathy
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. Emma Goldman on sympathy
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. Marcus Tullius Cicero on sympathy
Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor. Benjamin Disraeli on sympathy
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. William James on sympathy