Oscar Wilde Quotes about Sympathy

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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

Oscar Wilde

Life, Sympathy, Pain

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.51, First Avenue Editions

Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.

Oscar Wilde

Sympathy, Grief, Condolences

Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

Oscar Wilde

Sympathy, Condolences, Would Be

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.216, Wordsworth Editions

It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

Oscar Wilde

Sympathy, Suffering, Easy

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.216, Wordsworth Editions

Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

Oscar Wilde

Sympathy, Pain, Joy

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.65, Oscar Wilde

His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

Oscar Wilde

Sympathy, Morality, Should

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.120, Oxford University Press on Demand