Quotes About Empathy

People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness.

When you have a tough loss, go through it and agonize. I had one loss that I still want to change, but at the same time I realize it is an important part of who I am.

I was certain about this: In the best new language, there would be no words for me or you. Those words have caused all the trouble started by the old languages. In any new language, there should only be we.

Man will tell woman he will die for her, but I say, tell woman that you will die for her both physically and interior

It's no wonder I became a monster, too.

I was overpowered by being in the world, by other people and their lives I couldn't lead, their jobs I couldn't do - overpowered even by jobs I would never want or need to do.

The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.

Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.

They went through all that shit to raise you, and now you're sad so you jump off a fucking bridge. If my kid did that, I'd be pissed. What a fucking moron! I wouldn't even give him a funeral.

Hard" isn't the same as "mean".

People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.

He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps.

From the very second that two people sat together around a fire in the forest, there was another human out there who felt better in the dark.

The time to argue the pacifist cause is before or after a war, not during it. While our men are fighting it is not right for others to undermine them.

How can you love those who have stolen from you, assaulted or abused you, or tried to blow you up and completely destroy you? How can you forgive those who have kidnapped, tortured and killed someone you love? Yet this is where reconciliation has to begin.

He has given me his gift of silence, knowing that at least I am free to construe my own truths about his feelings. It's generous.

They are not demons, not devils... Worse than that. They are people.

You've taken everything from me..." "No," she interrupted. "Me, I take nothing. I only take by the hand. So that no-one must be alone and lost in the fog... Goodbye, Gerald of Rivia. Some other day.

Let them call me a traitor and a coward. Because I, Yarpen Zigrin, coward, traitor and renegade, state that we should not kill each other. I state that we ought to live. Live in such a way that we don't, later, have to ask anyone for forgiveness.

Geralt . . . Listen to me—' 'Listen to what?' shouted the Witcher, before his voice suddenly faltered. 'I can't leave— I can't just leave her to her fate. She's completely alone . . . She cannot be left alone, Dandelion. You'll never understand that. No one will ever understand that, but I know. If she remains alone, the same thing will happen to her as once happened to me . . . You'll never understand that . .

You don't have to kill your feelings. It's enough to kill hatred within yourself.

It is you humans who hate anything that differs from you, be it only by the shape of its ears. That's why you took our land from us, drove us from our homes, forced us into the savage mountains.

I consider waging war against other races idiocy.

To be neutral does not mean to be indifferent or insensitive. You don't have to kill your feelings. It's enough to kill hatred within yourself.