Sympathy Quotes and Sayings
Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain. ~ Oscar Wilde. The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly. ~ Julian Barnes. Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy that feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system - with all these exalted powers - still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. ~ Charles Darwin. Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains - under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core. ~ William James. I can sympathize with people’s pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness. ~ Aldous Huxley. He bit his lips in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it. ~ S.J. Perelman. I have no need of your God-damned sympathy. I only wish to be entertained by some of your grosser reminiscences. ~ Alexander Woollcott. It was that verse about becoming again as a little child that caused the first sharp waning of my Christian sympathies. If the Kingdom of Heaven could be entered only by those fulfilling such a condition I knew I should be unhappy there. ~ Philip Larkin. No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride... and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well... chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten. ~ Hunter S. Thompson. |
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