Sympathetic Connection Quotes

Normally writers do not talk much,because they are saving their conversations for the readers of their book- those invisible listeners with whom we wish to strike a sympathetic chord.

It is however, difficult to make your narratives relative by yourself. A novelists' work is to provide models to make your narratives relative. If you read my novels then you may feel, "I have the same experience as this narrative", or "I have the same idea as this novel". It means that your narrative and mine sympathize, concord and resonate together.

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.

Just being with a group of girls and experiencing sadness together - it's a pretty powerful thing.

A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive people imagined the humors of the gods in fair weather. What is she to believe in if not in this vision woven from within?

There are secret ties, there are sympathies, by the sweet relationship of which souls that are well matched attach themselves to each other, and are affected by I know not what, which cannot be explained

The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to live over the unconscious history with a sympathy so tender as to be almost personal experience.

The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.

One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.

I am an emotional plagiarist, stealing other people's pain, subsuming it into my own until I can't remember whose it is any more.