Sympathy Quotes

"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living."

Cicero

"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths."

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

"Compassion is the basis of morality."

Arthur Schopenhauer

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

Ian Maclaren

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand."

Henri Nouwen

"Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals."

Pema Chödrön

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive."

"Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load."

Charles Henry Parkhurst

"Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others."

Samuel Smiles

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

Aesop

"The greatest gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy."

Meryl Streep

"Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another."

Alfred Adler

"Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion."

bell hooks

"The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement... that is a friend who cares."

Henri Nouwen

"Grief does not change you. It reveals you."

John Green

"Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow."

Leo Tolstoy

"Grief is just love with no place to go."

Jamie Anderson

"In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing."

Robert G. Ingersoll

"Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room."

Henry Scott Holland

"Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them."

George Eliot

"You will lose someone you can't live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news."

Anne Lamott

"When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence."

Thich Nhat Hanh

"The wealth of compassion is the greatest wealth; the wealth of riches is found even among the base."

Thiruvalluvar

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

Mother Teresa