Quotes About Empathy

I shouldn't have gone out so far, fish," he said. "Neither for you nor for me. I'm sorry, fish.

But I could tell thee of other things, Inglés , and do not doubt what thou simply cannot see nor cannot hear. Thou canst not hear what a dog hears. Nor canst thou smell what a dog smells. But already thou hast experienced a little of what can happen to man.

The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.

Nessun uomo è un'isola, completo in se stesso; ogni uomo è un pezzo del continente, una parte del tutto. Se anche solo una nuvola venisse lavata via dal mare, l'Europa ne sarebbe diminuita, come se le mancasse un promontorio, come se venisse a mancare una dimora di amici tuoi, o la tua stessa casa. La morte di qualsiasi uomo mi sminuisce, perché io sono parte dell'umanità. E dunque non chiedere mai per chi suona la campana: suona per te.

To understand is to forgive.

When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen.

Then he began to pity the great fish that he had hooked. He is wonderful and strange and who knows how old he is, he thought.

I wish I could write well enough to write that story, he thought. What we did. Not what the others did to us.

And feel now. Thou hast no heart but mine.

No one should be alone in their old age, he thought. But it is unavoidable.

But walking down the stairs feeling each stair carefully and holding to the banister he thought, I must get her away and get her away as soon as I can without hurting her. Because I am not doing too well at this. That I can promise you. But what else can you do? Nothing, he thought. There's nothing you can do. But maybe, as you go along, you will get good at it.

Oh Daddy, can't you give her something to make her stop screaming? asked Nick. No. I haven't any anesthetic, his father said. But her screams are not important. I don't hear them because they are not important. -Indian Camp-

There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me.

I learned one thing." "What?" "Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.

You should not judge; you should understand.

I must hold his pain where it is, he thought. Mine does not matter. I can control mine. But his pain could drive him mad.

When people are talking listen completely. Don't be thinking what you are going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. You should be able to go into a room and when you come out know everything that you saw there and not only that. If that room gave you any feeling you should know exactly what it was that gave you that feeling. ... And always think of other people.

I could picture it. I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.

Montoya could forgive anything of a bull-fighter who had afición. He could forgive attacks of nerves, panic, bad unexplainable actions, all sorts of lapses. For one who had afición he could forgive anything. At once he forgave me all my friends. Without his ever saying anything they were simply a little something shameful between us, like the spilling open of the horses in bull-fighting.

I am speaking much. But it is so we may understand one another.

I would not kill even a Bishop. I would not kill a proprietor of any kind. I would make them work each day as we have worked in the fields and as we work in the mountains with the timber, all of the rest of their lives. So they would see what man is born to. That they should sleep where we sleep. That they should eat as we eat. But above all that they should work. Thus they would learn.

I must hold his pain where it is, he thought. Mine does not matter. I can control mine. But his pain could drive him mad. After

For what are we born if not to aid one another? And to listen and say nothing is a cold enough aid.

You're feeling it now, fish, he said. And so, God knows, am I.