Sympathy is something that shouldn’t be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them – Bob Feller.

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load – Charles Henry Parkhurst.

To be in one’s own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness – Confucius.

Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart – Edmund Burke.

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery – Edward Gibbon.

Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality – Emily Dickinson.

A human life is a story told by God – Hans Christian Andersen.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism – Henri-Frederic Amiel.

He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil – John Taylor.

Sympathy is never wasted except when you give it to yourself – John W Raper.

And with the morn those angel faces smile, Which I have loved long since and lost awhile – John Henry Newman.

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.

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey – Kenji Miyazawa.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need – Malcolm Forbes.

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering – Oscar Wilde.

His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be – Oscar Wilde.

Sympathy is a virtue unknown in nature – Paul Eipper.

The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness – Ralph Waldo Emerson.

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing – Robert Ingersoll.

Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight – Rossiter Worthington Raymond.

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.

Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings of the world – Sri Chinmoy.

Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one – Thomas Carlyle.

To live in hearts we leave behind. Is not to die – Thomas Campbell.

Love here on earth, Love beyond the grave, There are no roads, My love for you can’t pave – T. Sachs.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity – William Penn.