• "There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better." - Oscar Wilde Tweet
• "Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength." - Corrie Ten Boom Tweet
• "Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us." - Meister Eckhart Tweet
• "I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me." - Daniel Johns Tweet
• "Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind." - Marcel Proust Tweet
• "There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order." - William E. Gladstone Tweet
• "The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community." - William James Tweet
• "I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy." - Conrad Black Tweet
• "Okay, so, sometimes in life, I can be a score-keeper - someone who keeps track of what he gives and what he gets in return. An annoying quality, to say the least, and I'm sure my wife has your sympathy, but it's made me highly attuned to when and where credit is due." - Mark Feuerstein Tweet
• "I'm not looking for sympathy at all." - Arnold Schwarzenegger Tweet