Empathy Quotes

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.

Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiri...

All novels . . . are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being...

for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain on...

By revealing to Tomas her dream about jabbing needles under her fingernails, Tereza unwittingly reve...

A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see

Most men would rather be shot through with a broad-headed arrow than be described by you.

...Because a book is a little empathy machine. It puts you inside somebody else’s head. You see out ...

Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing ...

A book is a little empathy machine. It puts you inside somebody else's head. You see out of the worl...

Once upon a time,’ is code for ‘I’m lying to you.’ We experience stories as lies and truth at the sa...

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of oth...

When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, s...

I wish I had the talent to paint the way I feel about you, for my words always feel inadequate. I im...

What is love?It's not empathy, nor kindness.Empathy takes two, the one who hurts and the one who emp...

You know how the story ends. He escaped and went on to become the greatest chief Suntown ever had. H...

The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not...

How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another's heart? How much can we hope to unders...

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in th...

There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, tr...

If you look into someone's face long enough, eventually you're going to feel that you're looking at ...

And if, as all philosophers on the subject have noted, art is a human activity that relies on the se...

Something was wrong, and while Mr. Bones could scarcely imagine what that thing was, Henry's sadness...

It might feel, at least to some of us, that our opinions about issues such as abortion and the death...

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored — it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow...

Mankind needs more empathy.

Empathy, evidently, existed only within the human community, whereas intelligence to some degree cou...

Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart fro...

An android,” he said, “doesn’t care what happens to another android. That’s one of the indications w...

Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.

Loss of empathy might well be the most enduring and deep-cutting scar of all, the silent blade of an...

But love, honest love, requires empathy. It is a sharing—of joy, of pain, of laughter, and of tears....

I thought it would teach them a thing or two about empathy, and friendship, and loyalty. As it turns...

By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not dimini...

I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.

What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rub...

Holden went to his bungalow and began to understand that he was not alone in the world, and also tha...

The Oscar-nominated documentary The Act of Killing tells the story of the gangster leaders who carri...

Alone, [Chamcha] all at once remembered that he and Pamela had once disagreed, as they disagreed on ...

I am not an ornithologist—I am a bird.

Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to ...

I couldn’t even tell if I had any sadness of my own, because I was so full of Abuelita’s sadness.

Very few people have ever experienced the feeling of being completely understood. When they experien...