#sympathy

Who can tell what metals the gods use in forging the subtle bond which we call sympathy, which we might as well call love. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#sympathy #love

In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they're going to end. ↗

— Daniel Wallace

#sympathy #truth #nature

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

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#difficulty #entire #forever #free #lives

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#consistent #disguised #selfishness #sympathy #virtue

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

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