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.

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy sweat will get you change.

I'm not looking for sympathy at all.

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.