• "There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate." - Seth Green Tweet
• "IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction." - Carl Clinton Van Doren Tweet
• "More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic." - John Hall Tweet
• "Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength." - Corrie Ten Boom Tweet
• "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." - Agatha Christie Tweet
• "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. Jerome Tweet
• "Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all." - Laura Ingalls Wilder Tweet
• "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 Tweet
• "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 Bevan Tweet
• "We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression." - Confucius Tweet