Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart
Edmund Burke
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.
Sri Chinmoy
The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
Malcolm S. Forbes
I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.
Oscar Wilde
The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
Henri Frederic Amiel
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
Ben Elton
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
Francis Herbert Bradley