#sympathy

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#empathy #sadness #sympathy #comfort

It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#rudeness #sympathy #trouble

I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't. ↗

— Alton Brown

#better now #for the people #forced #game #i

One often calms one's grief by recounting it. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#calms #grief #often #recounting

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#darkness #finds #light #nearest #sorrow

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all. ↗

— Queen Elizabeth II

#benefit #consequence #deep #differently #done

September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world. ↗

— Tom Ford

#america #had #moment #september #sympathy

Tears are the silent language of grief. ↗

— Voltaire

#grief #language #silent #tears

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#less #trouble #world #would

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#beauty #better #colour #joy #less