- Misery
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sympathy Quotes
Gentle words for hard moments.
This page gathers reflections on how people respond to sorrow and loss, including the idea that mourning can sharpen rather than dull the mind. Several lines touch on how we Feel and the value of walking alongside someone rather than past them.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- General
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- Nov 07, 2020
AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.
- Fortnight
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fanatics end by subverting their own argument. For instance, animal rights activists have some point, and many people feel sympathy with them. But animal rights fanatics do not have a point. They are the sort of people who threaten human beings in their effort to 'defend' animals.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Farewell, dearest friend, never to see one another any more till at the right hand of Christ.
- Crumbs
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't have empathy for somebody that's gone through something you haven't - because, definitionally, you can't. But you can feel for them and have sympathy for them. And that's what this country needs to practice more. It's about realizing that you do come from a different place.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent three and a half years writing the novel 'Chang & Eng,' about the conjoined brothers for whom the term 'Siamese twins' was contrived, and when I think of these afflicted people, my only emotion is one of profound sympathy.
- Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pretty much all the drivers I get on with, at least to say 'Hi' and have a conversation. But when the helmet's on, you don't care who it is. You have no sympathy: someone blows an engine in front of you, if it means you gain a position, then you're smiling.
- Strength
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- Nov 07, 2020
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
- Flowers
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- Nov 07, 2020