If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
Oscar Wilde
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... →
Laura Ingalls Wilder
In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.
Frances E. Willard
I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.
A. N. Wilson
Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
Woodrow Wilson
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... →
William Wordsworth
Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.
Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
William Butler Yeats
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
William Blake
Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's... →
Harold Bloom