quotations about sympathy
Long night's strain,
Teach us change,
From fear.
I live to see the sympathy
That lives inside of you.
TONIC
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"Where Do I Fit"
Trade in all our words for tea and sympathy
Wonder why we tried for things that could never be
Play our hearts lament like an unrehearsed symphony
JARS OF CLAY
"Tea and Sympathy"
It is said that the wounded deer sheds tears; but it belongs to man only, to "weep with them that weep," and by sympathy to divide another's sorrows, and double another's joys.
THOMAS GUTHRIE
Gems of Illustration from the Sermons and Other Writings of Thomas Guthrie
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
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
Dislike is much easier to handle than sympathy.
AMIE KAUFMAN
These Broken Stars
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"
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
Though sympathy can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
BRAM STOKER
Dracula
One advantage gained by calamities, is to know how to sympathize with others in the like troubles.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
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
For if sympathy is seen as an aspect of human intelligence, derived from an emotional experience, which is in turn based on evaluating and appraising objects, one can deduce that it is a state which can be changed, developed, augmented, or manipulated.
SOPHIE RATCLIFFE
On Sympathy
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
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
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
The man who melts
With social sympathy, though not allied,
Is of more worth than a thousand kinsmen.
EURIPIDES
Orestes
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
O Sympathy, thy marvellous power to heal
We may not in life's vernal period feel;
Then joys abound, and mantling in the breast
Hope reigns, and lends to life unfailing zest.
J. STRATTON
Fireside Poems
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