Sympathy Quotes

There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
- William Cowper

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

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

Of a truth, men are mystically united, a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
- Thomas Carlyle

It 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

Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
- Oscar Wilde

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

For I no sooner in my heart divin'd My heart, which by a secret harmony Still moves with thine, joined in connection sweet.
- John Milton