Quotes about Sympathy

Miserable comforters are ye all.

Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow.

Jesus wept.

When you dig another out of their troubles, you find a place to bury your own.

Passion lasts but a moment, compassion a lifetime.

I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate.

Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.

We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly human.

The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.

Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.

A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.

It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.