“Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.”
Source: Ever Yours, Florence Nightingale: Selected Letters
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Source: Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People
“I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.”
Source: A Collection of the Best English Plays, Chosen Out of All the Best Authors..: Vol. III.
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”
“For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?”
Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views
“I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.”
“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”
“When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.”
“We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.”
“Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.”
Source: 101 Facts of life
“The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.”
“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”
Source: A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer
“There is no death, only a change of worlds.”
Source: Answering Chief Seattle
“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”
“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)
“'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
Source: Autobiographical Writings
“Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.”
“Tears are the silent language of grief.”
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“And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.”
Source: The Americanness of Walt Whitman
“If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.”
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
Source: President Wilson's Addresses
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
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“Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”
Source: The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume