#sympathy

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. ↗

— Aeschylus

#great #grief #joy #memory #pain

When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy. ↗

— Alexei Navalny

#anyone #arrested #basis #everyday #hardly

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#breadth #humanitarian #knowledge #lays #solely

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#does #ears #eyes #feet #hands

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#am #criticism #entered #goes #i

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. ↗

— Thomas More

#anguish #bring #cannot #earth #heal

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#easy #express #hard #sorrow #tell

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience. ↗

— Evelyn Underhill

#deliberately #kindness #opportunities #patience #seek

The only cure for grief is action. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#action #cure #grief #only

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with. ↗

— John Irving

#console #fact #how #i #in fact