1. “If you’re looking for sympathy you’ll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”
2. “It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book
3. “I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him… The land of tears is so mysterious.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
4. “Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.”
― Justin Timberlake
5. “Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.”
― Criss Jami
6. “Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
7. “Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Art and Lies
8. “We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.”
― Napoleon
9. “Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive.”
― Charlotte Brontë
10. “Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he’d tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied.”
― Charlaine Harris, Dead as a Doornail
BY SHWETA TIWARI
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