• "The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind." - Washington Irving 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
• "It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness." - Marcus Tullius Cicero Tweet
• "Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal." - Thomas More Tweet
• "Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion." - Louise J. Kaplan Tweet
• "Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind." - Marcel Proust 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
• "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'Rourke Tweet
• "It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature." - Henry David Thoreau Tweet
• "I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them." - A. N. Wilson Tweet