Sympathy Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

37 Sympathy Quotes
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“Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed.”
Alexander Pope Quotes
Source: Essay on Man (ep. IV, l. 323)
“Somewhere or other there must surely be The face not seen, the voice not heard, The heart that not yet--never yet--ah me! Made answer to my word.”
Christina G. Rossetti Quotes
Source: Somewhere or Other
“If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller,”
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Quotes
Source: Votive Tablets--Value and World
“It [true love] is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind In body and in soul can bind.”
Sir Walter Scott Quotes
Source: The Lay of the Last Minstrel (canto V, st. 13)
“For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul, If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part II (King Henry at I, i)
“Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it, Making it momentany as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!' The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Lysander at I, i)
“A heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathise.”
Anna Letitia Waring Quotes
Source: Father I know that all my Life
“A sympathetic heart is like a spring of pure water bursting forth from the mountain side.”
Anonymous Quotes
“Sympathy is a virtue unknown in nature.”
Paul Eipper Quotes
“If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes
“When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.”
Ed Howe Quotes
“Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes