Sympathy Sayings and Quotes

Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.
- John Taylor

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

A human life is a story told by God.
Hans Christian Andersen

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul, If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track, but one inch between wreck and smooth rolling prosperity.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
- William Penn

Sympathy is the nectar-delight of a bleeding heart.

Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.
- Kahlil Gibran

The capacity to give one’s attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have this capacity do not possess it. Warmth of heart, impulsiveness, pity are not enough.

Life is eternal, and love is immortal,
and death is only a horizon;
and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.
- Rossiter Worthington Raymond

Although it’s difficult today to see beyond the sorrow,
May looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow.

The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.

Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

Sympathy gives immediate shelter to grief.

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