He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.

Everybody in the world ought to be sorry for everybody else. We all have our little private hell.

Unto a broken heart No other one may go Without the high prerogative Itself hath suffered too.

A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.

Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one.

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.

Of all cruelties those are the most intolerable that come under the name of condolence and consolation.