Quotes About Empathy

Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.

Our pain is a part of who we authentically are.

I don't know if we ever fully get over the pain of watching a child trying to find their way through a world that too often doesn't understand.

I was taught that pain is bad.

Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.

I think I'd like to be able to heal people's pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever.

I still find that a kind of stricture of the heart happens when I see any form of bigoted or racist behaviour. I get an actual pain in my heart.

I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.

I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'

People wonder aloud about whether I am an okay mother. That is obviously painful because it's so important to me. It's hard to hear that people think I'm not a capable mother and a good person, that they just think I'm nuts.

I completely, 100 percent got bullied, and I'd still stick up for myself and try to be strong, but it was always so deeply painful.

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

Asking for forgiveness is just one of the most painful kind of experiences.

People think that when you're connected with other people it's more painful. The opposite is true. When you're connected to the river you have despair, but you also have joy, and there's a flow in the river.

There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.

The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world.

We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.

I held my father's hand while he died of cancer, and it's really painful when you do something like that up close and personal. My mother was already gone, and I was very, very close to my father.

I saw things before they happened, and that scared me very much. The premonitions would always be accompanied by harsh and painful physical sensations.

I like that I've been through things, that when something happens, it resonates with something that already happened. It's not that things like loss are more or less painful. But they're deeper. I find that fascinating.

I am keenly aware that in writing about my mother, I am writing about my aunts' sister, and that in writing about my grandmother, I'm writing about their mother. I know that my honesty about how my view of these people has changed over the years may be painful.

I've always been interested in how other people live their lives, which is why it's important to engage fully even in painful times. And out of that, I get to laugh.

I think that the shame of being different is very painful for a lot of people.