Condolence Inspirational Sympathy Quotes

Wining and dining instead of crying and wailing at a funeral in sympathy with the bereaved is a mockery of condolence. If the dead are capable of anything, they will zip up the mouth of everyone in attendance except those crying and condoling. ~ Vincent Okay Nwachukwu

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult. ~ Cristiano Ronaldo

Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings. Of the world ~ Sri Chinmoy

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength not by my weakness. ~ Amos Bronson Alcott

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain. ~ Lillie Langtry

Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable. ~ Bram Stoker

Be the person you needed when you needed help. ~ Rain Cooper

In certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy. ~ George Eliot

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

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

Humans are very strange. When you need a hug, they throw you away, when you need condolence , they insult you, and when you need love, they betray you. ~ M.F. Moonzajer

He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it. ~ S.J Perelman

Fucking sympathy. Give him anger. Give him fear. Give him fuzzy-assed unicorns that shit glitter and gold-- just don't give him sympathy. Sympathy sucked a giant sack. ~ Abbie Roads

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion. ~ Louise J. Kaplan

I gave you sympathy. *I* want sympathy!"
"Are you kidding me? You have the sexiest man on the planet wanting you. You're getting laid regularly. No sympathy for you! ~ Jill Shalvis

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests. ~ George William Norris

Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; they
know all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence. ~ George Eliot

May this be your final sorrow. ~ Anita Amirrezvani

He wants your sympathy, and sometimes, India, people mistake sympathy for love. ~ Elizabeth George

One word of sympathy can heal the thousand wounds of heart and soul. ~ Anonymous

In all disappointments sympathy is a great balm. ~ Elizabeth Gaskell

She was an expert in the exact amount of condolence which would be acceptable. ~ Agatha Christie

Sympathy's easy. You have sympathy for starving children swatting at flies on the late-night commercials. Sympathy is easy because it comes from a position of power. Empathy is getting down on your knees and looking someone else in the eye and realizing you could be them, and that all that separates you is luck. ~ Dennis Lehane

We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people. ~ Helmut Kohl

The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen. ~ Euripides

[T]he distance between sympathy and sensuality is as short as that which separates those two words in the dictionary. ~ Pitigrilli

To ask a child to feel sympathy for the poor is harder than getting him to feel sympathy for a chicken or a goat - at least you can see a goat being slaughtered. ~ Karan Mahajan

There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate. ~ Seth Green

Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy. ~ Isaac Barrow

It was all conveyed by the nicest, almost indetectably refined blend of sympathy and bitchiness ... ~ John Wyndham

Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension.
Wanda ~ Ouida

You have to be honest, you can't love someone out of sympathy. ~ PewDiePie

Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others. ~ Samuel Smiles

Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them. ~ Bob Feller

Why do humans always look at these things from the wrong perspective? Predators deserve our sympathy, too. ~ Beth Fantaskey

empathy is more powerful than sympathy ~ Angie Thomas

The grocer told him that he participated in his sorrow, the Hebrew way of expressing condolence. ~ Judith Frank

It would occur to her later that sympathy is disarming even without surprise, but unexpected sympathy leaves no defense. ~ Ilana C. Myer

There can be no understanding without that sympathy which puts us, through the imagination, and (another's) situation. ~ Niall Ferguson

If sympathy was all it took to clean up shit, I'd have 50 times as much sympathy as anybody else ~ Haruki Murakami

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

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load. ~ Charles Henry Parkhurst

I'm not looking for sympathy at all. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

Dislike is much easier to handle than sympathy. ~ Amie Kaufman

Up to the present man has hardly cultivated sympathy at all. He has merely sympathy with pain, and sympathy with pain is not the highest form of sympathy. All sympathy is fine, but sympathy with suffering is the least fine mode. It is tainted with egotism. It is apt to become morbid. There is in it a certain element of terror for our own safety. We become afraid that we ourselves might be as the leper or as the blind, and that no man would have care of us. It is curiously limiting, too. One should sympathise with the entirety of life, not with life's sores and maladies merely, but with life's joy and beauty and energy and health and freedom. ~ Oscar Wilde

It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought. ~ Oscar Wilde

Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version! ~ David Chalmers

I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it. ~ Mary Shelley

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them. ~ Ben Elton

To avoid becoming chronically unemployed, people need more than platitudes offering sympathy. Career reinvention requires encouragement and guidance. ~ Nina Easton

Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy. Sympathy leads to hesitation. Hesitation will get you killed. ~ Victoria Schwab

Even a witch wants sympathy. ~ Franny Billingsley

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy. ~ Irving Babbitt

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral. ~ Charles Darwin

There are times when a sports figure doesn't deserve sympathy. ~ Stephen Rodrick

I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake. ~ Joe Cornish

Such actions are beyond praise: it is the perfume of such sweet and noble human sympathy that makes this wild beasts' cage a world habitable for men. ~ Frank Harris

If a person's mind is controlled by forces of revenge and jealousy, it cannot express love & sympathy. And even if they show love and sympathy to others it will yield no good result. The thought will not be reflected in love but in hate. ~ Virchand Gandhi

Ignorance may be bliss, but only if it outweighs curiosity. Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy. ~ Victoria Schwab

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

I felt bad when George Bush was booed. But only briefly. My sympathy for that man has a half-life of about four seconds. ~ Dick Cavett

Why did everyone send casseroles in times of crisis? Why didn't anyone ever send brownies and Jack Daniel's? ~ Jaye Wells

There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy; but there is more - there is action. The noblest and most powerful form of sympathy is not merely the responsive tear, the echoed sigh, the answering look; it is the embodiment of the sentiment in actual help. ~ Octavius Winslow

Kindness, compassion, and sympathy are the nourishment for humanity. ~ Debasish Mridha

It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love-Plus many mysteries. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Sympathy is a characteristic trait of politicians and empathy an emotion of the masses. ~ Amit Abraham

It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least. ~ F.H. Bradley

I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before. ~ Fritz Sauckel

And as a result yet today we are unable to distinguish between sympathy and selfishness. ~ M.H. Rakib

Flute of Breath
Dusky condolence
Today i 'll sing you
My Sighs ~ Satbir Singh Noor

I have great sympathy for people that are infertile, but a life is not something you can give away. ~ Mary Beth Whitehead

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

Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

NFL fans have less sympathy for fallen players than the Romans had for blind Christians. ~ Stephen Rodrick

All you're supposed to do is every once in a while give the boys a little tea and sympathy. ~ Robert Anderson

At this time of sadness, there are no words to say, My heart is full of sympathy, for you and your family today. ~ Susan Smith

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. ~ Robert Browning

True sympathy is beyond what can be seen and touched and reasoned upon. ~ Rosa Campbell Praed

If I'm feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer. ~ James Nachtwey

Cats know that a warm body is more comforting than a thousand condolences. ~ Rae D. Magdon

Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system? ~ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Little is taught by contest or dispute, everything by sympathy and love. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sympathy is why when a man is getting mugged, you let him keep his shirt after you take his life. Funerals are respectable affairs, after all. ~ Bauvard

Most of my younger Native American friends are not in any way looking for sympathy, and they're not looking to lay guilt on anybody. They have their dignity, and they do what they do. ~ Robbie Robertson

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

There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain. ~ Oscar Wilde

Sympathy is to love thy neighbor. Empathy is to leave her alone. ~ Anthony Marais

Sympathy, recall, tends to be expressed in communal relationships, the kind that are also accompanied by guilt and forgiveness. Anything that creates a communal relationship, then, should also create sympathy. ~ Steven Pinker

I'm completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer perceives being alive in the world. ~ Thomas Ligotti

History-writing is not a visit of condolence. ~ Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier

His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be ~ Oscar Wilde

The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves. ~ Catharine Beecher

A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle. ~ Julian Fellowes

One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy. ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view. ~ Edwin Morgan

Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science. ~ E. M. Forster

The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command. ~ Orville Dewey

I bask in that sympathy because it's nice to have somebody who cares, even if it's the wrong person for the wrong reasons. ~ Nenia Campbell

It's important to find characters that share sympathy with a young audience, not just in the story but their role in the world. ~ Tim Crouch

Sympathy is no substitute for action. ~ David Livingstone