Sympathy Sayings

A saying is a phrase, often used for expressing the feelings in a metaphorical way. When ever we use any saying we are giving a piece of counsel and knowledge on the way things happen. Here is the list of some quotations on sympathy or Sympathy Sayings by popular authors to help you express your feelings.

A brother’s sufferings claim a brother’s pity.
- Joseph Addison

A grave is braced not just by a tombstone but by angels as well.
- Adabella Radici

A marriage or a refusal or a proposal thrills through a whole household of women, and sets their hysterical sympathies at work.
- William Makepeace Thackeray

Ah! thank heaven, travelers find Samaritans as well as Levites on life’s hard way.
- William Makepeace Thackeray

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all.
- Oliver Goldsmith

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
- Benjamin Robert Haydon

Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other’s rights and wrongs; thus are we men.
- Philip James Bailey

One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Our own cast-off sorrows are not sufficient to constitute sympathy for others.
- Madame Suzanne Curchod Necker

Sympathy has to be the first and foremost thing in one’s life, sympathy and the feeling of oneness. There cannot be anything greater than the feeling of oneness.
- Sri Chinmoy

Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.
- Samuel Smiles

The craving for sympathy is the common boundary-line between joy and sorrow.
- A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare

The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.
- Benjamin Disraeli

True sympathy is beyond what can be seen and touched and reasoned upon.
- Mrs. Campbell Praed

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.
- Kahlil Gibran