Quotes About Empathy

It's mad because as a woman, you carry the baby for nine months, so you're very conscious that you have a little one inside you. But for a guy, it's suddenly, there's a baby there.

I'm a political poet - let us say a 'human' poet, a poet that's concerned with the plight of people who suffer. If words can be of assistance, then that's what I'm going to use.

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

I like when characters suffer in stories because that's real life and that's what we all go through.

Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

No one should be left to suffer alone.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently.

Often they benefit who suffer wrong.

Great artists suffer for the people.

I have two boys, so I don't want any more child to suffer like me.

I have the kind of conscience that it doesn't feel right if I watch other people suffer and I do nothing about it.

Myself, I suffer from loneliness. And I think we all feel alone. I'm looking for stories that help people deal with loneliness and help them if they are monsters: they don't have to undertake monstrous actions. And maybe they're not monsters.

You can't stigmatize people, you can't cut away people you admire just because they suffer AIDS. It's just not right.

You need to suffer to be interesting.

I feel that I have such an abundance in my life, and once you've seen how many people suffer and how little it takes for you to actually change their lives for the better, it's hard not to do something.

When I meet children and people who suffer, when they mention any kind of pain, emotional pain, physical pain, I know what they need, because it's the same thing I need. They need healing, they need peace, they need joy, they need hope.

I share their frustration at times and I get down just like them when we suffer a bad result.

So I don't really suffer too badly from fears - I'm quite happy to engender them in other people though!

I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do.

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.

I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.

You don't want people to suffer or get fat when they're pregnant.