Famous Quotes

"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery."

Edward Gibbon on Sympathy

More quotes about Sympathy

• "That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind."

  William Wordsworth on Sympathy

• "Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength."

  Corrie Ten Boom on Sympathy

• "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 on Sympathy

• "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."

  Khalil Gibran on Sympathy

• "When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions."

  William Shakespeare on Sympathy

More quotes by Edward Gibbon

• "I was never less alone than when by myself."

• "Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused."

• "Our work is the presentation of our capabilities."

• "The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature."

• "Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism."