quotations about sympathy
Dislike is much easier to handle than sympathy.
AMIE KAUFMAN
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These Broken Stars
How softly the tear of sympathy falls on the heart bruised and broken with sorrow! It assures the sad and weeping soul that it is not alone in a wilderness of cold hearts; that there are those who can feel for the troubles of others; and oh! what is more cheering to an aching heart than such a thought?
WILLIS GIEST
"The Tear of Sympathy", The Mourner's Friend; Or, Sighs of Sympathy for Those who Sorrow
To weep and lament over misfortunes, when it draws the sympathizing tear, brings no light recompense.
AESCHYLUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Long night's strain,
Teach us change,
From fear.
I live to see the sympathy
That lives inside of you.
TONIC
"Where Do I Fit"
Sympathy is as lightning; it is quick as thought; it waits not to make its selections; it is irrespective of considerations, and of partialities, and of tastes, and of cold prudence.
ISAAC TAYLOR
attributed, Day's Collacon
Sympathy is an openness in which the sorrow or joy lived by another is immediately and directly perceivable and meaningful in and through the body. The fact that the life lived by another is immediately and directly perceivable in his body does not mean that sympathy is caused by the mere encounter with another or that sympathy is the result of empirical observation. Sympathy is not called forth as the conclusion of a reasoning process which could be decided one way or another. Concretely, sympathy indicates a change of disposition or heart. This change is spontaneous and creative. Sympathy is a function which opens a man towards another man as this man living this life.
A. R. LUTHER
Persons in Love: A Study of Max Scheler's Wesen und Formen der Sympathie
For I no sooner in my heart divin'd,
My heart, which by a secret harmony
Still moves with thine, joined in connection sweet.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy; but there is more -- there is action. The noblest and most powerful form of sympathy is not merely the responsive tear, the echoed sigh, the answering look; it is the embodiment of the sentiment in actual help.
OCTAVIUS WINSLOW
attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers
Never elated while one man's oppress'd;
Never dejected while another's blessed.
ALEXANDER POPE
An Essay on Man
Sympathy just doesn't mean
That much to me
Compassion's not
The fashion in my mind
And if you're looking for
A shoulder to cry on
Don't turn your head my way
'Cause I'd rather have
My music any day
URIAH HEEP
"Sympathy"
One advantage gained by calamities, is to know how to sympathize with others in the like troubles.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world--without friends or country, home or kindred.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
Though sympathy can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
BRAM STOKER
Dracula
Human sympathy is a dear bargain. God waits outside till our company has gone.
DANIEL CONSIDINE
"God is Shy: Waiting and wanting in Advent", America: The Jesuit Review, December 3, 2015
The greatest pleasures of which the human mind is susceptible are the pleasures of consciousness and sympathy.
WILLIAM GODWIN
The Enquirer
The man who melts
With social sympathy, though not allied,
Is of more worth than a thousand kinsmen.
EURIPIDES
Orestes
Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should learn; it will be ill for him if he proceeds no farther; if his emotions are but excited to roll back on his heart, and to be fostered in luxurious quiet; but unless he learns to feel for things in which he has no personal interest, he can achieve nothing generous or noble.
SIR THOMAS NOON TALFOURD
Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of T. Noon Talfourd
Sympathy is a currency for losers.
MIKE FREEMAN
"As Rumors Swirl, the Browns' Pick at No. 1 Has NFL and Other Teams Concerned", Bleacher Report, April 14, 2017
Sophistic closures of maze inphiltrate
With dove inter-cooings as if to a mate--
Sympathy--sympathy.
GERDA DALLIBA
"Sympathy", An Earth Poem and Other Poems
He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
The Deserted Village