S Quotes
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“Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by other charms than those which the senses feel and which the resources of expression can realise.”
Source: The woman in white
“Sympathizer.
It’s only slightly better than the other word that followed me for years after my mom’s death, a snakelike hiss, undulating, leaving its trail of poison: Suicide.
A sideways word, a word that people whisper and mutter and cough: a word that must be squeezed out behind cupped palms or murmured behind closed doors. It was only in my dreams that I heard the word shouted, screamed.”
Source: Delirium
“Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.”
“Sympathy and outrage are the only two emotions people know these days. They have forgotten how to love a well and happy person. They are desperately attracting things in their life over which they can show sympathy or outrage.”
“Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.”
Source: The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)
“Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.”
Source: The Black Gryphon
“Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.”
Source: On the Constitution of the Church and State
“Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings. Of the world”
“Sympathy feels like a performative word, whereas empathy is human.”
“SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL
Now please let me introduce myself
I’m the wealthy charming man
Been here on earth for many, many years
Many hearts, faiths and souls I stole
I was around and watched Jesus Christ
Had his faith, doubt and pain
Conned goddamn Pontus Pilate
To wash his hands and doom his soul
Thrilled to meet you
Do you guess my name
Thought I’m in hell but no I’m right here
That’s the puzzling nature of my game”
Source: Roses in the Rainbow
“Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact because the enemy is your justification for existence.”
Source: Chapterhouse: Dune
“Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification.”
Source: George Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior: ...And Other Important Writings
“Sympathy for the lowest animals is one of the noblest virtues with which man is endowed.”
“Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.”
“Sympathy has to be the first and foremost thing in one's life,
sympathy and the feeling of oneness.
There cannot be anything greater than the feeling of oneness .”
“Sympathy is a characteristic trait of politicians and empathy an emotion of the masses.”
“Sympathy is a nobler feeling than pity. But if sympathy is the principal reason that one person is drawn to another, there will always be an unbridgeable chasm between friendship and genuine love.”
Source: Saint Odd
“Sympathy is a shallow stream in the souls of those who have not suffered.”
“Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.”
Source: The Journals
“Sympathy is a sweet thing.”
Source: Little Men: Fife at Plumfield with Jo's Boys
“Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.”
“Sympathy is especially a Christian duty.”
“Sympathy is imagining the pain. Empathy is having suffered through it first.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Sympathy is in great degree a result of the mood we are in at the moment; anger forbids the emotion. On the other hand, it is easiest taken on when we are in a state of most absolute self-satisfaction.”
Source: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
“Sympathy is never waisted except when you give it to yourself.”
“Sympathy is no substitute for action.”
“Sympathy is not action,
and does not absolve us of the need
to do something.
Action is effective with this travesty,
pushing back creates friction
and exposure
if incapable of stopping the destruction
altogether.
He's weak tea.
Not just Putin can bully him.
Even Musk can bully him,
even Musk's young son.
We have to keep remembering that.
And the political minions following him
can even more easily be bullied--
that's how he got them on board in the first place.
They don't want to lose their place and their power.
Do something.
Make a call.
Write a letter.
Attend a protest or a town hall.
It may not stop everything,
but it may stop something.
And at least we'll have tried.”
“Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed on the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.”
“Sympathy is the charm of human life.”
Source: The Mother's Recompense: a Sequel to Home Influence
“Sympathy is the child of imagination”
Source: The Story of My Life
“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.”
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Writings
“Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.”
Source: Character
“Sympathy is to love thy neighbor. Empathy is to leave her alone.”
Source: Delusionism
“Sympathy is towards someone else, versus empathy, which is feeling like someone else.”
“Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.”
“Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to the biggest dance of the year. Empathy is what I do to you when you judge me. Envy is having pity on yourself. Can you discern the rest for yourself?”
“Sympathy? Not for me. No mercy for a criminal freak in Las Vegas. This place is like the Army: the shark ethic prevails - eat the wounded. In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”
Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
“Sympathy of victims and humanity of us question the stronghold of integrity towards justice.”
“Sympathy once more reveals its limits when faced with madness.”
Source: Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond
“Sympathy one receives for nothing, envy must be earned.”
“SYMPATHY ONLY INCREASES THE PAIN
DOES A SYMPATHIZER FEEL THE SAME
SYMPATHY ONLY INCREASES THE PAIN”
“Sympathy’s easy. You have sympathy for starving children swatting at flies on the late-night commercials. Sympathy is easy because it comes from a position of power. Empathy is getting down on your knees and looking someone else in the eye and realizing you could be them, and that all that separates you is luck.”
“Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.”
“Sympathy will have been increased through natural selection”
Source: The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
“Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.”
Source: Aphorisms
“Sympathy, Love, Fortune... We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!”
“Symphonic orchestras have almost become a glut in the market.”
“Symphonies begin with one note; fires with one flame; gardens with one flower; and masterpieces with one stroke.”
“Symphonies can generate a tremendous amount of sounds, beauty, and emotion. That is part of their human feel and sweetness. Keyboards, on the other hand, give us access to millions of sounds. When I put the two together, the result is unique, and it’s not only pleasing to the ear, but produces emotional responses that neither of the two can achieve on their own.”
“Symphony is the ability to see the big picture, connect the dots, combine disparate things into something new. Visual artists in particular are good at seeing how the pieces come together. I experienced this myself by trying to learn to draw.”