I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.
There are three stages to a man's life. 1. He laughs at Clark Griswold. 2. He sympathizes deeply with Clark Griswold. 3. He laughs at Clark Griswold.
The missing crowds make you lonely. You begin to complain about all the people you could be meeting. But no one listens or sympathizes with you, because this is precisely what you chose when you were alive.
Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians!. . . . I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right and honorable to use any means under God's heaven to kill Indians.
Man alone knows that he must die; but that very knowledge raises him, in a sense, above mortality, by making him a sharer in the vision of eternal truth. He becomes the spectator of his own tragedy; he sympathizes so much with the fury of the storm that he has no ears left for the shipwrecked sailor, though the sailor were his own soul. The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
The world sympathizes only with strong and powerful.
No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.
He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.
