• "Grief is only the memory of widowed affections." - James Martineau Tweet
• "There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate." - Seth Green 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
• "Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago." - Eamon de Valera Tweet
• "The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party." - Goldwin Smith Tweet
• "When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy." - Alexei Navalny Tweet
• "Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion." - Francis Herbert Hedge Tweet
• "I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine." - Kate Smith Tweet
• "It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness." - Marcus Tullius Cicero Tweet
• "A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times." - Alfred Lord Tennyson Tweet