quotations about sympathy
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
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
The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Representative Men
Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Essays
One advantage gained by calamities, is to know how to sympathize with others in the like troubles.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
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
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
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"
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
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"
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
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
A kind, sympathizing word from the lips falls like oil upon the ruffled waters of the human breast.
NICIAS BALLARD COOKSEY
Helps to Happiness
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
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
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
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 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 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
Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy.
VICTORIA SCHWAB
The Archived