Sympathy Quotes
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"Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even YOU turned from me in disgust?"Source: Frankenstein | Author: Mary Shelley
"Because only one thing counts in this life: get them to sign on the line which is dotted."Source: Glengarry Glen Ross | Speaker: Blake
"But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was."Source: Luke 10:30, 33-34 | Author: Luke
"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents"Source: Little Women | Author: Louisa May Alcott
"For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing."Source: The Plague | Author: Albert Camus
"Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world"Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck
"He ain't mean," said Slim. "I can tell a mean guy from a mile off."Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck
"He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her."Source: The Gospel of John | Speaker: Jesus of Nazareth
"He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish."Source: The Old Man and the Sea | Author: Ernest Hemingway
"I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged."Source: Shawshank Redemption | Speaker: Red
"If no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no wars."Source: War and Peace | Author: Leo Tolstoy
"If you think Mick Jagger will be out there trying to be a rock star at age 50, then you are sadly, sadly mistaken."Source: Almost Famous | Speaker: Dennis Hope
"Maybe Christmas, perhaps...means a little bit more!"Source: How the Grinch Stole Christmas | Author: Dr. Seuss
"Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?"Source: Snow White | Speaker: The Evil Queen
"Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing."Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Speaker: Reverend Sykes
"No, Lennie, I ain't mad. I never been mad, and I ain' now. That's a thing I want ya to know."Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck
"Pleased to meet you. Hope you guess my name."Source: Sympathy for the Devil | Speaker: The Rolling Stones
"This is a man's world. But it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl."Source: It's a Man's Man's Man's World | Speaker: James Brown
"Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth."Source: The Pride of the Yankees | Speaker: Lou Gehrig
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."Source: The Lorax | Author: Dr. Seuss
"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show."Source: David Copperfield | Author: Charles Dickens
"Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it."Source: Jeremiah 10:19 | Author: Jeremiah
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view […] until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Author: Harper Lee