My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.
Agnes Smedley

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Emma Goldman

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Edward Gibbon

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will always be listened to with respect and sympathy.
Stafford Cripps

Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.
Henry Cabot Lodge

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

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.
Eamon de Valera

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
P. J. O'Rourke

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
Ben Elton

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.
Lillie Langtry

Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.
Bob Feller

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.
Charles Henry Parkhurst

Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.
Francis Herbert Hedge

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
W. H. Davies

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
William James

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

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
Malcolm Forbes