There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
Tears are the silent language of grief.
Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
Grief changes shape, but it never ends.
Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
I felt bad when George Bush was booed. But only briefly. My sympathy for that man has a half-life of about four seconds.
In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
It's not very interesting to establish sympathy for people who, on the surface, are instantly sympathetic. I guess I'm always attracted to people who, if their lives were headlines in a newspaper, you might not be very sympathetic about them.
Pretty much all the drivers I get on with, at least to say 'Hi' and have a conversation. But when the helmet's on, you don't care who it is. You have no sympathy: someone blows an engine in front of you, if it means you gain a position, then you're smiling.
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.
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.
The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
In Japanese culture, there is a belief that God is everywhere - in mountains, trees, rocks, even in our sympathy for robots or Hello Kitty toys.
It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.
The relation of landlord and tenant is not an ideal one, but any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.