"The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind." - Washington IrvingTweet
"It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one." - Jerome K. JeromeTweet
"It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness." - Marcus Tullius CiceroTweet
"Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal." - Thomas MoreTweet
"Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion." - Louise J. KaplanTweet
"Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind." - Marcel ProustTweet
"I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one." - Aneurin BevanTweet
"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'RourkeTweet
"It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature." - Henry David ThoreauTweet
"I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them." - A. N. WilsonTweet