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Sympathy Quotes

My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.

– Brownie McGhee

No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.

– Billy Graham

Flowers grow out of dark moments.

– Corita Kent

My impressions of the Russian Revolution can be divided into two periods. The first period was when I showed deep sympathy. My second period is one of disappointment. This change was the result of close observation on the spot.

– Chiang Kai-shek

In the early days of the Russian Revolution in 1917, I was completely in sympathy with it. I felt that it established a new era in the history of the modern world. I was so overwhelmed by it that, if people made any unfriendly comment, I would vigorously defend it. If people condemned the Communist party, I would speak in its defense.

– Chiang Kai-shek

Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.

– Anne Grant

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

– Aeschylus

It’s a game that just takes so much out of you. Every aspect of your life has to be very narrow, very focused. Everything else has to go away. And because of that, I think it’s obviously not healthy. The last thing I’m looking for is sympathy.

– Alex Rodriguez

Kindliness and sympathy, fellowship and understanding, are always good, but best when they come from a distant corner of the world.

– Archibald Hill

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

– Alphonse de Lamartine

I damaged my health during ‘Les Mis,’ which I didn’t want to mention in case it seemed like I was courting sympathy.

– Anne Hathaway

Sympathy is something that shouldn’t be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

– Bob Feller

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

– Ann Landers

It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.

– Al Smith

Queen Paola and I will never forget the ties that have grown between the people and us during the course of the years. Thank you for your confidence, tokens of sympathy and support, sometimes even with a little criticism. We always loved you.

– Albert II of Belgium

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

– Anne Sullivan

We’re so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior.

– Chuck Palahniuk

We Germans have a special responsibility to be alert, sensitive, and aware of what we did during the Nazi era and about lasting damage caused in other countries. I’ve got tremendous sympathy for that.

– Angela Merkel

The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I’ve seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.

– Anthony Storr

I have every sympathy for writers. It’s a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, ‘I’m not saying that’ or, ‘How about we move this to here? Wouldn’t that make that bit of the story better?’ But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.

– Alan Rickman

When our bodies are sick and people extend their sympathy, bring us soup, offer up solutions. When our minds are sick, people tend to shy away from you, be afraid, or call you outright crazy. I’m fascinated by the way society and individuals view mental illness, and most of my shorts comment on that.

– Anna Akana

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

– Florence Nightingale

Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right.

– Erich von Stroheim

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

– Norman Cousins

I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life.

– Major Taylor

AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.

– Edmund White

Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.

– Gary Ackerman

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.

– George MacDonald

Abstract sympathy with the working class as an economic entity is easy, but the feeling can vanish on contact with actual members of the group, who often arrive with disturbing beliefs and powerful resentments – who might not sound or look like people urban progressives want to know.

– George Packer

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.

– Dorothy Day

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