Empathy Quotes

How convenient it is to declare that everything is totally ugly within the habit of the époque, rath...

Remember how strong we are in our happiness and how weak he is in his misery!

One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to fe...

Should I, too, prefer the title of 'non-Jewish Jew'? For some time, I would have identified myself s...

Were these boys in their right minds? Here were two boys with good intellect, one eighteen and one n...

When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accep...

Dream!Forge yourself and riseOut of your mind and into others.Men, be women.Fish, be flies.Girls, ta...

Her father dropped her off in front of the place where she was to live and left the engine running. ...

I don't blame you one iota for feeling as you do. If I were you I would undoubtedly feel just as you...

By becoming interested in the cause, we are less likely to dislike the effect.

Once you take the time to consider the other person's perspective, you will become sympathetic to hi...

I will chum with you, and suffer when you suffer, and laugh when you laugh. I will bite my tongue wh...

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lac...

Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, ou...

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence....

Algernon is so smart he has to solve a problem with a lock that changes every time he goes in to eat...

Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with ...

If you have the power to hit people over the head whenever you want, you don’t have to trouble yours...

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowi...

In this world where too many are willing to see only the light that is visible, never the Light Invi...

You can't fix things with a hug, but you can't make them any worse either.

She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she w...

Sympathy’s easy. You have sympathy for starving children swatting at flies on the late-night commerc...

There’s a larger point to be made here than my own obtuseness, which is the fragility, beauty, and a...

The way to understand any enemy is to realize that, from his perspective, he is not a villain but a ...

Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empath...

We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the ligh...

The novelist defines the story with the following example: If you are told that the king died and th...

It is not rubbish! It is the part of people that you do not understand.

...life makes ugly faces at us sometimes, I know.

As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in it...

I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sy...

When the positive revolution takes hold it will no longer be enough for politicians to gain points t...

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known stru...

He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in hi...

In return, Giovanni told me that empathizing Italians say L'ho provato sulla mia pelle, which means ...

Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of char...

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't...

He sits in an old armchair in the corner covered with bits of blankets and a bucket behind the chair...

Ironically, torture requires empathy, too, in the sense that one cannot deliberately inflict pain wi...

I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanze...

If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imag...

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.

If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it wa...

The environment is not an "other" to us. It is not a collection of things that we encounter. Rather,...

Half the point in reading novels and seeing plays and films is to exercise the faculty of sympathy w...

What do you want to say to me?’‘Nothing—just to talk about the profession I am entering. I am about ...

We cannot expect to lift others unless we stand on higher ground ourselves.

• People deserve a break. The stressed and unorganized person who doesn’t have the same priorities a...

It's a shameful, wicked, abominable law, and I'll break it, for one, the first time I get a chance; ...

Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you kn...

If he’s not he should be by now. The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens...

Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they kn...

Still, this was on the order of a minor miracle, running across someone to whom you can express your...

No matter what the situation may be, I still take pleasure in witnessing the joy of others.

As you are all aware, in the course of life we experience many kinds of pain. Pains of the body and ...

As you are all aware, in the course of life we experience many kinds of pain. Pains of the body and ...

He laughed and the others laughed with him, except Babe, who resented slightly that what he felt so ...

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, t...

Those who choose not to empathise enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outrig...

There were relatives of their victims among the Hogwarts students, who now found themselves the unwi...

Now you might think that I chose my second theme, the importance of imagination, because of the part...

And many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within ...

An imaginary circle of empathy is drawn by each person. It circumscribes the person at some distance...

I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.

No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands...

I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people...

The nature of humanity, its essence, is to feel another's pain as one's own, and to act to take that...

Call the world, if you please, "the Vale of Soul Making". Then you will find out the use of the worl...

Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that another person is every bi...

This mournful and restless sound was a fit accompaniment to my meditations.

It is only when you suffer that you truly understand.

You can't love someone without imaginative sympathy, without beginning to see the world from another...

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (...

It occurred to her that nobody really knew what anybody else was upset about, and that seemed like a...

I'll put it on my table where I keep my drawings," Hassan said.His saying that made me kind of sad. ...

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest co...

But when he’s cut, I bleed.

The only time you look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look...

The only time you look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look...

The only time you look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look...

The only time you look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look...

Three-fourths of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world will disappear if we step into the ...

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

I came to recognise that, apart from her [Françoise's] own kinsfolk, the sufferings of humanity insp...

Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter i...

As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another:...

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault o...

I want my father to be just my father, the way he has always been, not a separate person with an ear...

So that made me happy but the part that really made me happy was that you wanted me to be happy. Tha...

How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all.

The most powerful thought is a prayerful thought. When I'm praying for you, I am praying for my own ...

I don't know whether your heart ever necessarily changes, but time changes the way that you perceive...

Men have nothing in common with me--there is no point of contact; they have foolish little feelings ...

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the su...

Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, ...

Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers...

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.