SYMPATHY QUOTES III

quotations about sympathy

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


A man's sympathy extends just so far as his wisdom reaches, and no further; and a man only grows wiser as he grows tenderer and more compassionate. To narrow one's sympathy is to narrow one's heart, and so to darken and embitter one's life.

JAMES ALLEN

Byways to Blessedness


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


Though sympathy can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.

BRAM STOKER

Dracula

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Pity and need
Make all flesh kin. There is no caste in blood.

EDWIN ARNOLD

Light of Asia


Sympathy is spontaneous. It is a direct function of my consciousness of kind, the recognition of my most fundamental self in another.

JOSEPH WILLIAM LESTER JONES

Sociality and Sympathy: An Introduction to the Ethics


Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow
For other's good, and melt at other's woe.

HOMER

The Odyssey

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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


Sympathy is a fellow-feeling with any in trouble; it can only be fully developed where like experience exists.

A. RITCHIE

attributed, Day's Collacon


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


The man who melts
With social sympathy, though not allied,
Is of more worth than a thousand kinsmen.

EURIPIDES

Orestes

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Sympathy is value perception, but simultaneously, a living with, a participation in the life lived by a man seen as a value. This participation is an event within Being which reveals a level or mode of being. The openness involved not only reveals a deeper level of being in the one opening towards the other, but also reveals the other man in his unique and valued being.

A. R. LUTHER

Persons in Love: A Study of Max Scheler's Wesen und Formen der Sympathie


If your heart is filled with human sympathy you are sure to have friends.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts

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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"


Never elated while one man's oppress'd;
Never dejected while another's blessed.

ALEXANDER POPE

An Essay on Man

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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

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Sympathy is often not enough. It can be condescending. But taking on the identity of others, appropriating what is theirs, is invasive and frequently violent. I have heard appropriation defended on the grounds that we have a responsibility to tell one another's stories and must be free to do so. This is a seductive but flawed argument. The responsibility toward other people's stories is real and inescapable, but that doesn't mean that appropriation is the way to satisfy that responsibility. In fact, the opposite is true: Telling the stories in which we are complicit outsiders has to be done with imagination and skepticism. It might require us not to give up our freedom, but to prioritize justice over freedom. It is not about taking something that belongs to someone else and making it serve you but rather about recognizing that history is brutal and unfinished and finding some way, within that recognition, to serve the dispossessed.

TEJU COLE

"Getting Others Right", New York Times Magazine, June 13, 2017


There are some men and women whose sympathies for others' pains are as quick as the consciousness of their own; who feel a personal relief from suffering when others are relieved; and to whose ear the song of the captive ransomed from guilt is sweeter than a thousand-voiced chorus, pealing their own praises. These are the god-like.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts

Tags: Thomas Mann


The greatest pleasures of which the human mind is susceptible are the pleasures of consciousness and sympathy.

WILLIAM GODWIN

The Enquirer

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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