60 best sympathy quotes and sayings

Our latest collection of sympathy quotes and sayings on Everyday Power Blog.

Sympathy refers to the feelings of pity or sorrow we have for those who have experienced misfortune. It is when you feel bad for another person who’s going through a difficult moment.

Sympathy and empathy are often used interchangeably. But unlike empathy, which involves a shared perspective or shared emotions, sympathy is simply a feeling of care and concern for the suffering.

Sympathy may be expressed either verbally or non-verbally. Since it’s associated with bad experiences such as the death of a loved one, it’s often appropriate to express your sympathy for someone else. Letting those who are suffering know that you care about them can be a huge comfort in a stressful and painful time.

Whether you’re comforting people in writing or in person, sometimes it can be difficult to know just what to say. To make it easier for you, here are some great sympathy quotes and sayings that will inspire you to communicate that you care about those who are suffering and that you’re there to offer support.

 

Best sympathy quotes and sayings

 

1.) “Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.”  –Henri Frederic Amiel

 

2.) “No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.” – Emma Goldman

 

3.) “Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.” –Richard Brinsley Sheridan

 

4.) “Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.” –J. C. Macaulay

 

5.) “Remember how strong we are in our happiness and how weak he is in his misery!” ― Charles Dickens

 

6.) “Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.”-Charles H. Parkhurst

 

 

7.) “I’m not asking you to walk in my shoes; I’d never wish my afflictions on anyone. But could you walk beside me on secure ground and reach to hold my hand?” ― Richelle E. Goodrich

 

8.) “Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.” –Oscar Wilde

 

9.) “Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.” – George W. Norris

 

10.) “Sit with me, and I’ll not be alone.
Hold my hand, and I’ll not feel alone.
Cry with me, and I’ll no longer suffer alone.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich

 

Sympathy quotes on why you should show compassion

 

11.) “Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. – Eric Hoffer

 

12.) “Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” – José N. Harris

 

13.) “Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.” – Jean Giraudoux

 

14.) “To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.” – Ivan Turgenev

 

15.) “There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.” – William Cowper

 

 

16.) “Show your compassion to people in their lifetime; no amount of your tears can serve as compensation when their coffins are lowered!” ― Israelmore Ayivor

 

17.) “It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.” – Henry David Thoreau

 

18.) “Without empathy, there’d be no harmony in diversity” ― Jennifer Tindugan-Adoviso

 

19.) “To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.” –CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

 

20.) “It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.” – Jerome K. Jerome

 

Sympathy quotes and sayings for loss of a loved one

 

21.) “It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.“ – John Steinbeck

 

22.) “Words can’t express how saddened we are to hear of your loss.”

 

23.) “We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world – the company of those who have known suffering.“ – Helen Keller

 

24.) “What is lovely never dies, but passes into another loveliness, Star-dust or sea-foam, Flower or winged air.” –Thomas Bailey Aldrich

 

25.) “I have no idea why God has allowed this, but I do know that we have a Savior who is acquainted with our griefs and sorrows.”

 

26.) “Only a moment you stayed, but what an imprint your footprints have left on our hearts.” –Dorothy Ferguson

 

27.) “We weep as we witness the dead of a loved one.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita

 

 

28.) “Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.” –B. R. Hayden

 

29.) “Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow” – Robert Louis Stevenson

 

30.) “The graveyard is the everlasting home of every man.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita

 

Sympathy quotes to highlight its importance

 

31.) “Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.” – Victor Hugo

 

32.) “As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.” – Steven Curtis Chapman

 

33.) “And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.” – Walt Whitman

 

34.) “Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong.” –Sir Edwin Arnold

 

 

35.) “There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.” – Dante Alighieri

 

36.) “Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.”  –Johann von Goethe

 

37.) “It’s frustrating when our best efforts to help people fail. But if we could see life through their weary eyes and experience their trials with the same frayed emotions, we might understand why.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich

 

38.) “If you truly have compassion in your heart, show it by keeping your doubts to yourself and sharing your hope with those who love change!” ― Israelmore Ayivor

 

39.) “There’s nothing like your mother’s sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.” – SOPHIE KINSELLA

 

40.) “The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Sympathy quotes on why you should care

 

41.) “Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 

42.) “Though sympathy can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.” – Bram Stoker

 

43.) “When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.“ – Kahlil Gibran

 

44.) “I don’t presume to know God’s purpose, but I do know that you can cast your cares upon him, because he cares for you.”

 

45.) It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one. – Jerome K. Jerome

 

46.) “Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.” –Jane Austen

 

47.) “Sympathy is a currency, and I’m shaking a cup!” – ISAAC OLIVER

 

 

48.) “The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.”- George Eliot

 

49.) “Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow For other’s good, and melt at other’s woe.- Homer

 

50.) “With mercy and sympathy, no one will hate to love one another.” ― Auliq Ice

 

Other inspirational sympathy quotes and sayings

 

51.) “The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!“ – Fyodor Dostoyevsk

 

52.) “Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals.“ – Leo Tolstoy

 

53.) “The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves. “-Catharine Esther Beecher

 

54.) “I learned pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can’t be learnt in lecture halls.” – Lionel Blue

 

55.) “Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.” – Florence Nightingale

 

56.) “Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.” –Amos Bronson Alcott

 

57.) “Look for the person everyone hates, and love them.” ― Criss Jami

 

 

58.) “Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?” –Pablo Picasso

 

59.) “Sympathy is a virtue unknown in nature.”- Paul Eipper

 

60.) “If your heart is filled with human sympathy you are sure to have friends.” – Lewis F. Korns

 

How did you find these sympathy quotes?

Unfortunately, all of us experience some form of discomfort of grief in our lives. It could be a broken marriage, the death of a loved one, or any other kind of misfortune.

When those around us encounter such misfortune, it’s only appropriate for us to sympathize with them and reassure them that we care about them. Hopefully, these quotes have made it easier for you to express sympathy for those who are suffering.

Did you enjoy these sympathy quotes? Which of the quotes was your favorite? We would love to hear all about it in the comment section below.

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