"The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind." ― Washington Irving Topic(s): Sympathy More From Washington Irving "There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position, and be bruised in a new place." "Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You’re never as good as you’d like to be. So there’s always something to hope for." "A woman’s whole life is a history of the affections." More In Sympathy "Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can’t identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn’t yet historical."― Leslie Fiedler "Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load."― Charles Henry Parkhurst "I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As a human being, I would like to express my sympathies, and also as prime minister of Japan I need to apologize to them."― Shinzo Abe