SYMPATHY QUOTES II

quotations about sympathy

One who can listen to our tale of grief,
And feel a pleasure, if he bring relief?
The face which spoke its sorrow and its pain
Then quickly learns to wear bright smiles again,
And gloomy shadows, brooding o'er the heart,
All fly, when Sympathy performs her part.

J. STRATTON

Fireside Poems


SYMPATHY, akin to pity, may be styled one of the passions or deep feelings of the human heart, the inmost soul. Without sympathy we are without all that is Godlike in our nature, and more fit to be classed with "fiends" than with our fellow mortals. The heart that cannot be touched by the sight of human woe and suffering, must indeed be a hard heart. I should pick out as a truly courageous and brave man, and one likely to be foremost in any danger, he who could first shed the tear of sympathy for a brother or sister in distress. A hard heart is never really a brave heart. It is in the power of everyone to give sympathy in distress, if they cannot give assistance. A kind word to one in distress is like helping to hold up a falling heart, or like a push behind when going up a steep hill. The beasts of the field, and the birds of the air, often feel deep sympathy for one another when in pain or suffering. I have seen it made apparent in many ways. Then remembering your immortal and never-dying souls, and Christ's great sympathy for you, be not worse than the beasts of the earth, but sympathise one with the other when in pain, mental or bodily.

T. AUGUSTUS FORBES LEITH

"On Sympathy", Short Essays


Like the sea-anemone, which feels the first returning wave upon the rock, and throws out all its tendrils, so the tender nature of some individuals will give forth all its sympathies at the slightest intimations of woe.

JOHN EVERETT

The Bible Class Magazine, Volume 8


Dislike is much easier to handle than sympathy.

AMIE KAUFMAN

These Broken Stars


It may, indeed, be said that sympathy exists in all minds, as Faraday has discovered that magnetism exists in all metals; but a certain temperature is required to develop the hidden property, whether in the metal or the mind.

EDWARD BULWER LYTTON

Miscellaneous Prose Works

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

The Table Talk and Opinions of Napoleon Bonaparte

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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

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One advantage gained by calamities, is to know how to sympathize with others in the like troubles.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine

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Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.

CHARLES DARWIN

The Descent of Man

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And sympathy is what we need my friends
'Cause there's not enough love to go 'round

BING CROSBY

"Sympathy"


He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

The Deserted Village

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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


So far as the sympathy alone is concerned, I perceive only that something in another which is like myself in my own experience.... We may say that the instant I sympathize I become the other, yet only the other so far as I perceive it to be myself. I appear for a moment to be losing my identity in sympathizing, yet as a matter of fact I am asserting it in the strongest terms.

JOSEPH WILLIAM LESTER JONES

Sociality and Sympathy: An Introduction to the Ethics


Man is shut out from Heaven and Peace and Truth only in so far as he shuts out others from his sympathy. Where his sympathy ends his darkness and torment and turmoils begin.

JAMES ALLEN

Byways to Blessedness

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To weep and lament over misfortunes, when it draws the sympathizing tear, brings no light recompense.

AESCHYLUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


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 irreducible phenomenon, an actualization of being which can only be clarified metaphysically.

A. R. LUTHER

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


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


Who can tell what metals the gods use in forging the subtle bond which we call sympathy, which we might as well call love.

KATE CHOPIN

The Awakening

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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