Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help. - Criss Jami
One advantage gained by calamities, is to know how to sympathize with others in the like troubles. - Wellins Calcott
Though sympathy can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable. - Bram Stoker
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness. - Ivan Turgenev
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. - Samuel Johnson
You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don’t want to change. - Sue Grafton
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