"I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair."
― Joseph Addison
Topic(s):
Sympathy
More From Joseph Addison
- "Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass."
- "There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady’s head-dress."
- "Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed."
More In Sympathy
- "Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children."― Michael Gove
- "Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe."― Florence Nightingale
- "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