“I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.”
Oscar Wilde
“Many times I am asked why the suffering of animals should call forth more sympathy from me than the suffering of human beings; why I work in this direction of charitable work more than toward any other. My answer is that because I believe that this work includes all the education and lines of reform which are needed to make a perfect circle of peace and goodwill about the Earth.”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“The government of Indonesia calls for the Indonesian people not to overreact in expressing their and sympathy towards the suffering of the Afghanistan people and not to engage in activities that are violating the laws and may disturb security and public order,”
Hassan Wirayuda
“The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.”
Catharine Esther Beecher
“Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature it requires, in fact, that nature of a true Individualist to sympathize with a friend's success.”
“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
“We must never permit the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.”
Albert Schweitzer
