There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate.
Seth Green
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Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins
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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
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The comic novels I did when I was in my 20s had a harder edge - less sympathy for people. Or a sympathy that was harder to detect: Characters' foibles and obsessive bents were unrelenting, like caricatures.
Lydia Millet
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Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them.
Juliette Gordon Low
GirlAchievementSisterSympathy
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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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
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The relation of landlord and tenant is not an ideal one, but any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.
George William Russell
LifeSympathyWillSpiritHuman
There are two classes of women in Soviet Russia. There is the professional class, which has taken the place of the nobility and includes government officials, artists, doctors, composers and writers as well as former members of the old nobility whose sympathy is with the Soviets, and also the peasant class.
Elsa Schiaparelli
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When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.
Cristiano Ronaldo
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I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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Tears are the silent language of grief.
Voltaire
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It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.
Nellie Bly
KindnessSympathyWorldTroubleOnly
Grief changes shape, but it never ends.
Keanu Reeves
GriefSympathyNeverChangesShape
I'm not sympathetic. I have zero sympathy. I understand about emotional eating, I understand how painful the process can be, but I also understand that change is possible.
Jillian Michaels
ChangeSympathyEatingProcessZero
If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.
Havelock Ellis
NatureWomenMenYouthSympathy
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
JoySympathyDestinyLearnPerson
Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.
Edwin Morgan
GoodPoetryPeopleSympathyThink
It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.
John Lydon
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
Xenophon
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The truth is that at the White House and in Congress, you are as likely to find sympathy for animal issues among Republicans as among Democrats.
Matthew Scully
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He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.
S. J. Perelman
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There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.
Jean Paul
JoySympathyKnowSorrowNoneWhich
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
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