SYMPATHY

Related Subjects: Comfort, Consolation, Feeling, Grief, Help, Kindness, Pity, Sorrow, Understanding

1. Sympathy wanting, all is wanting. Personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that puts us in human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.—BRONSON ALCOTT
   

2. There is no lack of sympathy in the world; only with sympathy one can't earn a warm meal as easily as without sympathy.—BERT BRECHT, A Penny for the Poor
   

3. Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.—BURKE
   

4. All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.—COLERIDGE
   

5. To rejoice in another's prosperity, is to give content to your own lot; to mitigate another's grief, is to alleviate or dispel your own.—TRYON EDWARDS
   

6. Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.—GIBBON, Decline & Fall
   

7. Whether I am on the winning or losing side is not the point with me: it is being on the side where my sympathies lie that matters, and I am ready to see it through to the end.—ALAN SEEGER, Letter from the Trenches
   

8. There is a kind of sympathy in souls that fits them for each other; and we may be assured when we see two persons engaged in the warmths of a mutual affection, that there are certain qualities in both their minds which bear a resemblance to one another.—SIR RICHARD STEELE