Quotes About Empathy

I am afraid to die, Pilar,' he said. 'Tengo miedo de morir. Dost thou understand?' " 'Then get out of bed,' I said to him. 'There is not room in one bed for me and thee and thy fear all together.

We never talked for very long at a time. It was simply the pleasure of discovering what we each felt.

He had lost the capacity of personal suffering, or he thought he had, and could only be hurt truly by what happened to others.

I wanted it so much,' she said. 'I don't know why I wanted it so much. I wanted that poor kitty. It isn't any fun to be a poor kitty out in the rain.

Non devo fargli aumentare il dolore, pensò. Il mio non importa. Posso controllarlo. Ma il suo dolore può farlo diventare matto.

Nul homme n'est une île en soi. Nous faisons tous partie d'un continent et chaque fois que tu entends sonner le glas, ne demande pas pour qui il sonne, il sonne pour toi. --Ernest Hemingway, "Pour qui sonne le glas"?

Staying quiet doesn't mean I have nothing to say, it means I don't think you're ready to hear my thoughts.

I know how you feel, Dave, Andrew said when he brought the Coke. Nobody knows how I feel, David said.

I'm sorry we haven't been friends. Everybody is friends when things are bad enough. I'm going to be friends from now on. We're all going to do a lot of things from now on, Thomas Hudson said. I wish from now on would start.

Er þér sama um líf og þjáningar annarrar mannveru? Þín að minstakosti. Þú ert kvikindi. Já. Ég hélt þú myndir hjálpa mér Hem. Ég myndi feginn vilja skjóta þig.

Allir eru jafnstórir þegar þeir eru komnir uppí.

You cannot know about it unless you have it.

Úr orðum mínum gerði hann þá eitthvað sem varð að afmá, og stundum helst sjálfan mig um leið.

For one who had afición he could forgive anything.

Se non mi ami, non importa, sono in grado di amare per tutti e due.

I'm sorry. I've got a nasty tongue. I never mean it when I say nasty things.

It's your object to convey everything to the reader so that he remembers it not as a story he had read but something that happened to himself. That's the true test of writing..

When people talk, listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're 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. Try that for practice.

In order to write about life first you must live it." ? Ernest Hemingway

One of my favorite quotes: There is no friends as loyal as a book -Ernest Hemingway

In order to write about life, first you must live it!

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature

When the fish had been hit it was as though he himself were hit. But I killed the shark that hit my fish, he thought.

wanted to be there to say good-bye to him. No matter what a person does, there ought to be somebody on his side at the last moment.