SYMPATHY QUOTES IV

quotations about sympathy

I know you want me to feel some sympathy for them, but that's not who I am. I care only about those I know, and even then, not all that deeply. Strangers get nothing from me.

RACHEL CAINE

Lord of Misrule


The tear of sympathy never falls in vain; it waters and fertilizes the soil of the most sterile heart and causes it to flourish with the beautiful flowers of gratitude and love.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust

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Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us in human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Tablets


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


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

AESCHYLUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


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


Once you take the time to consider the other person's perspective, you will become sympathetic to his feelings and ideas. You will be able to authentically and honestly say, "I don't blame you for feeling as you do. If I were in your position, I would feel just as you do."

DALE CARNEGIE

How to Win Friends and Influence People


Sympathy is bliss; in it is revealed the highest, purest blessedness. It is divine, for in its reciprocal light all thought of self is lost, and there remains only the pure joy of oneness with others.

JAMES ALLEN

Byways to Blessedness

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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


It is the perfume of such sweet and noble human sympathy that makes this wild beasts' cage a world habitable for men.

FRANK HARRIS

Oscar Wilde


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


A sympathizing heart is a spring of pure water bursting forth from the mountainside; ever pure and sweet in itself, it carries gladness and joy on every ripple of its sparkling current.

WILLIS GIEST

"The Tear of Sympathy", The Mourner's Friend; Or, Sighs of Sympathy for Those who Sorrow


The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Representative Men

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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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A kind, sympathizing word from the lips falls like oil upon the ruffled waters of the human breast.

NICIAS BALLARD COOKSEY

Helps to Happiness


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"


I walk with a purpose. And a limp. (The limp helps serve my purpose, which is to gain sympathy.)

JAROD KINTZ

99 Cents for Some Nonsense


A look of love, a word of kindness, a tear of sympathy, costs us nothing. Why, then, withhold them from those who would prize them as blessings winged with the fragrant dews of heaven?

WILLIS GIEST

"The Tear of Sympathy", The Mourner's Friend; Or, Sighs of Sympathy for Those who Sorrow


Even a witch wants sympathy.

FRANNY BILLINGSLEY

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