My reputation is largely the creature of the kindly imaginings of my flock, whom I chose not to disillusion, in part because the truth had the kind of pathos in it that would bring on sympathy in its least bearable forms.
Marilynne RobinsonTag: loneliness sympathy
There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.
Sophie KinsellaTag: life parents sympathy motherhood mothers parents-and-children
Ignorance may be bliss, but only if it outweighs curiosity. Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy.
Victoria E. SchwabTag: curiosity ignorance sympathy
The law of sympathy is one of the most basic parts of magic. It states that the more similar two objects are, the greater the sympathetic link. The greater the link, the more easily they influence each other.
Patrick RothfussTag: sympathy magic quantum-physics
Walk with me for a while, my friend—you in my shoes, I in yours—and then let us talk.
Richelle E. GoodrichTag: compassion empathy sympathy understanding-others pity richelle richelle-goodrich
Understanding did not provide solace or make the pain go away; in many ways, understanding was just more salt in the emotional wound. Ignorance allowed one to fight back with unfettered cruelty. Understanding inspired empathy, which led to guilt, as well as suffering.
She looked at Gavin, supine, unconcerned, contented, and thought that perhaps there was something to being a sociopath. If you didn't have a heart, it couldn't be broken.
Tag: empathy understanding emotion sympathy feelings heartbreak feelings-of-weakness
Compassion only plagues those with hearts, much like a field of thorns only troubles those who bleed.
Richelle E. GoodrichTag: empathy apathy indifference sympathy richelle nonchalance richelle-goodrich unconcern
I know you want me to feel some sympathy for them, but that's not who I am. I care only about those I know, and even then, not all that deeply. Strangers get nothing from me.
Rachel CaineTag: compassion empathy sympathy morganville-vampires
...and as a result yet today we are unable to distinguish between sympathy and selfishness.
M.H. RakibTag: sympathy selfishness
In 1881, being on a visit to Boston, my wife and I found ourselves in the Parker House with the Ingersoll's, and went over to Charleston to hear him lecture. His subject was 'Some Mistakes of Moses,' and it was a memorable experience. Our lost leaders, -- Emerson, Thoreau, Theodore Parker, -- who had really spoken to disciples rather than to the nation, seemed to have contributed something to form this organ by which their voice could reach the people. Every variety of power was in this orator, -- logic and poetry, humor and imagination, simplicity and dramatic art, moral and boundless sympathy. The wonderful power which Washington's Attorney-general, Edmund Randolph, ascribed to Thomas Paine of insinuating his ideas equally into learned and unlearned had passed from Paine's pen to Ingersoll's tongue. The effect on the people was indescribable. The large theatre was crowded from pit to dome. The people were carried from plaudits of his argument to loud laughter at his humorous sentences, and his flexible voice carried the sympathies of the assembly with it, at times moving them to tears by his pathos.
{Conway's thoughts on the great Robert Ingersoll}
Tag: humor wisdom imagination inspirational truth art friendship love reason poetry power laughter morality speech admiration emotion sympathy logic tears simplicity respect honor praise emerson voice lecture ralph-waldo-emerson pathos paine thomas-paine memorable thoreau mirth ingersoll robert-g-ingersoll robert-green-ingersoll robert-ingersoll henry-david-thoreau boston henry-d-thoreau henry-thoreau orator ralph-e-emerson ralph-emerson some-mistakes-of-moses
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