quotations about sympathy
Sympathy is an irreducible phenomenon, an actualization of being which can only be clarified metaphysically.
A. R. LUTHER
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Persons in Love: A Study of Max Scheler's Wesen und Formen der Sympathie
Sympathy is when you feel sorry for someone. Compassion is when you do something about it.
JONAH GOLDBERG
"The Dangers of Empathy", National Review, May 5, 2017
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
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
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
The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Representative Men
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
Our souls sit close and silently within,
And their own web from their own entrails spin;
And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such,
That, spider like, we feel the tenderest touch.
JOHN DRYDEN
Mariage à la Mode
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
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
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
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
Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Essays
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
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
I ask Thee for a thankful love,
Through constant watching wise,
To meet the glad with joyful smiles,
And to wipe the weeping eyes,
And a heart at leisure from itself,
To soothe and sympathize.
ANNA LAETITIA WARING
Father I know that all my Life: Hymns and Meditations
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
A kind, sympathizing word from the lips falls like oil upon the ruffled waters of the human breast.
NICIAS BALLARD COOKSEY
Helps to Happiness
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
Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy.
VICTORIA SCHWAB
The Archived