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

Sympathy, Kindness, Trouble, World

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

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"But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

Sympathy, Existence, Happiness, Life

"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, American Philosopher

Sympathy, Justification, Loneliness, Behavior

"There is a third quality to friendship, and it is not as easy to put into a single word. The right word, literally, is 'sympathy' - sym-pathos, common passion. This means that friendships are discovered more than they are created at will."

Timothy J. Keller, American Author

Sympathy, Friendship, Passion, Unity

"A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy."

Morris Raphael Cohen, Russian Philosopher

Sympathy, Philosophy, Present, Will

"The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party."

Goldwin Smith, Canadian Historian

Sympathy, Humanity, Party, Prejudice

"In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion."

Frances E. Willard, American Activist

Sympathy, Thought, Fashion

"I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one."

Aneurin Bevan, Welsh Politician

Sympathy, Altruism

"A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason."

William R. Alger, American Writer

Sympathy, Reason

"California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?"

Denis Kearney, American Politician

Sympathy, May

"We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people."

Helmut Kohl, German Politician

Sympathy, People, Deep, Respect

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"I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded."

Power,

"In our short walks we passed the kitchen where food was prepared for the nurses and doctors. There we got glimpses of melons and grapes and all kinds of fruits, beautiful white bread and nice meats, and the hungry feeling would be increased tenfold."

Food, Doctors, Feeling, Kitchen

"I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that friends of mine were willing to take charge of me if I would rather be with them than in the asylum, I was only too glad to give my consent."

Friendship, Friends

"Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without salt, pepper or butter; mutton, beef, and potatoes without the faintest seasoning."

Medicine, Fish, Water

"I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly."

Life, God, Desire

"All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate."

Thought, Thoughts, Fate, Mind, Months

"I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they did, and their report to the court advises all the changes made that I had proposed."

Politics, Court, Jury

"People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed never ending, and we welcomed any event that might give us something to think about as well as talk of."

People, Ending, Talk, World

"I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like."

Life, Idea, Actions

"I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it."

Medicine, Doctors, Sanity