W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.

I am disposed to be thus particular from the interest you take in our welfare and from the entire confidence I have in your knowing, that you will be sympathetic with us in our misfortunes.

It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

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

I say let's respond as best we can to the victims and their families.

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.

Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

I'm not looking for sympathy at all.

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

Sympathy butters no parsnips.

We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.

My heart goes out to Lindsay Lohan.

Kindness will always make things feel better, more stable.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.

It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

Dr. Rice went well beyond offering a helping hand - she went so far as to shed tears and share hugs with those who, in a matter of just a few hours, had lost everything to the rising floodwaters.

You don't want to diminish anybody's pain and suffering.

The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

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

Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.