Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

Jerome K. Jerome

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• In order that people who suffer from depression seek treatment without a second thought, the stigmas must further fall until we reach a point in time when that person with leukemia and that person with depression both receive the same level of sympathy and the same level of rigorous treatment. Both people deserve it.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • People
  • Time
  • Fall

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

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Trouble
  • Sympathy

• Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Sympathy
  • Develop
  • Trials

• Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

  

  Xenophon
  • Know
  • Grief
  • Sympathy

• Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • People
  • Good
  • Laugh

• Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• Sometimes, in the midst of a tragedy like the Newton massacre, we witness incredible acts of valor, tenderness, grace, and decency. We saw it from Sandy Hook Elementary School's teachers, students, and parents, as well as from their community and country. The outpouring of sympathy and help has been touching and, at times, inspiring.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Country
  • School
  • Help

• You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.

  

  Ted Olson
  • People
  • Love
  • Support

• He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Sympathy
  • Him
  • Maternal

• Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Real

• The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Learn
  • Sorrow
  • Sympathy

• I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Feel
  • Sympathy
  • Intolerance

• The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Character
  • Feel
  • Sympathy

• By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places - whether in church, bedchamber, street, field, or forest - where crime has been committed, and shall exult to behold the whole earth one stain of guilt, one mighty blood spot.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Earth
  • Church
  • Sympathy

• My answer to that i.e. the question of whether Ruth hoped to set a new single-season HR record was 'No.' I don't believe I can ever better my 60 mark that I made in 1927. And, frankly, I don't believe anyone else will beat it for a long time either.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Long

• I have great sympathy with America. It's very, it's very tough to be the only remaining superpower in the world.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • World
  • Great
  • America

• Dedication: To my daughter Leonora without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Time
  • Book
  • Daughter

• In a distant age and climate the tragic scene of the death of Hussyn will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.

  

  Edward Gibbon
  • Age
  • Death
  • Sympathy

• Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Perfect
  • Sympathy
  • Indifference

• Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back out of the hole.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Black
  • Information
  • Events

• You really have so little choice - so little to decide. You get put through the machine and it chops you up and spits you out. Your life, it's all mechanical, of the machine, until you have free will. You can't be accepted into the Work until you have matured -- freed yourself and take responsibility for your life, become accountable for your every action. It's not just from coming to a school. It's an active process - you have to take the responsibility for yourself. When you're trapped in the machine, it doesn't matter what you do.

  

  E.J.Gold
  • School
  • Responsibility
  • Choices

• Always remember that there is a law of compensation which operates just as infallibly as gravitation, and that victory goes at last where it ought to, and that this is just as true of individuals as of nations.

  

  William Feather
  • Remember
  • Victory
  • Individual

• The problem with being married to an athlete who is, like, 19 feet tall and can just eat, like, 17 burgers at 11 o'clock at night is, you're like, 'I'll have just three of those burgers,' and you think you're being good because he had 19 and you had three!

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
  • Night
  • Problem

• It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

  

  Jerome K. Jerome
  • Sympathy