3 December 2020 George William Russell Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.
3 December 2020 Lionel Blue I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can’t be learnt in lecture halls.
3 December 2020 Goldwin Smith The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.
3 December 2020 Terry Prachett I didn’t go to university. Didn’t even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
3 December 2020 Agnes Smedley 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.
3 December 2020 Queen Elizabeth II 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.
3 December 2020 Charles Trevelyan I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people’s minds better than we Liberals.
3 December 2020 Harold Bloom 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.
3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
3 December 2020 Irving Babbitt The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
3 December 2020 Daniel Johns I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they’d take sympathy on me.
3 December 2020 Hugh Jackman I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. ‘Sympathy For The Devil’ is a great one.
3 December 2020 Hugh Mackay I’m in total sympathy with Dick Smith’s sentiments I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name.
3 December 2020 Ben Elton Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
3 December 2020 Albert Szent-Gyorgyi I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy.
3 December 2020 Peter Storey I didn’t feel any remorse or sympathy if I injured a rival. I went over the top a few times but I never broke anyone’s leg.
3 December 2020 Ivor Novello Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere.
3 December 2020 Haruki Murakami You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
3 December 2020 Agatha Christie I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
3 December 2020 Washington Irving The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
