He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

Wisdom must go with sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child - on a fieldmouse instead of a human soul.

It has always been my temptation to put myself in other people's shoes: even into a horse's shoes as he strains before the heavy dray; into a ballerina's points as she feels age weigh upon her spring. With experience of age I have learned to control this habit of sympathy which deforms truth.

It is very odd how completely unable so many men are to put themselves in the place of their own audience - so very unlike the old Duke of Devonshire, who yawned during his own maiden speech because, as he told somebody, 'It was so damned dull.'

We all have strength enough to endure the troubles of others.

Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late.

There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.

No one is so accursed by fate, No one so utterly desolate, But some heart, though unknown, Responds unto his own.

The less we parade our misfortunes, the more sympathy we command.

Needs there groan a world in anguish just to teach us sympathy?

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.

A sympathizer is a fellow that's for you as long as it doesn't cost anything.

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

Three-fourths of the people you will meet tomorrow are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you.

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

Never let anyone even catch a glimpse of your sorrow; inquisitive people drink tears as flies drink the blood of a wounded deer.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.