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If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly become the objects of pity.
-Italian Proverb
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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
-Amos Bronson Alcott
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Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
-Jean Anouilh
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Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong.
-Sir Edwin Arnold
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Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
-Jane Austen
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The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.
-Nicholson Baker
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The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.
-Catharine Esther Beecher
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Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.
-Josh Billings
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Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
-William Blake
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God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.
-Albert Camus
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Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.
-Randolph Churchill
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A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Pity is a thing often vowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.
-Charles Caleb Colton
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Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.
-Marquis De Sade
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The people that I care about are the people out there on the street. I can identify with them.
-Princess of Wales Diana
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Sympathy is never wasted except when you give it to yourself.
-John W. Draper
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
-George Eliot
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Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.
-George Eliot
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Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing -- deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
-John Galsworthy
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Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
-Johann von Goethe
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
-Oliver Goldsmith
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Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
-B. R. Hayden
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Books about Sympathy
