People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

- Ann Landers

I damaged my health during 'Les Mis,' which I didn't want to mention in case it seemed like I was courting sympathy.

- Anne Hathaway

I don't want to be entertained. I don't want visuals or musicals. I don't want a vacation. I don't want to quit. I don't want sympathy. The cry of my heart is 'Just Give Me Jesus.'

- Anne Graham Lotz

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.

- Angelina Grimke

I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't.

- Alton Brown

I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy.

- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

I'm not looking for sympathy at all.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

- Anne Sullivan

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

- Aeschylus

We Germans have a special responsibility to be alert, sensitive, and aware of what we did during the Nazi era and about lasting damage caused in other countries. I've got tremendous sympathy for that.

- Angela Merkel

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

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

- Alphonse de Lamartine

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

It's a game that just takes so much out of you. Every aspect of your life has to be very narrow, very focused. Everything else has to go away. And because of that, I think it's obviously not healthy. The last thing I'm looking for is sympathy.

- Alex Rodriguez

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

- Alex Ferguson

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

- Albert Schweitzer

I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.

- Alan Rickman

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

- Agatha Christie