Quotes About Empathy

En alguna novela he escrito que el amor consiste en encontrar a alguien con quien compartir tus rarezas.

Dice que la Dama pertenece a un tipo de personas que ella, Nyneve, conoce muy bien y que aborrece: aquellas que han sufrido un dolor y que por eso se creen justificadas para cometer cualquier tropelía, como si los demás individuos les debieran algo para siempre.

Uno sería infinitamente generoso con los muertos amados: pero claro, siempre es mucho más difícil ser generoso con los vivos.

La literatura nos hace formar parte del todo y, en el todo, el dolor individual parece que duele un poco menos.

Los hombres, en cambio, creo que suelen ser más sanos en este punto y que son capaces de querernos por lo que en verdad somos. No nos inventan tanto, probablemente porque no tienen tanta necesidad (durante siglos, el amor ha sido la única pasión que se nos ha permitido a las mujeres, mientras que los hombres podían apasionarse por muchas otras cosas), o quizá no tengan tanta imaginación.

A saber de dónde saldrá esa necesidad absoluta que nos convierte a todos los escritores en eternos indigentes de la mirada ajena.

En el origen de la creatividad está el sufrimiento, el propio y el ajeno.

Siempre me ha dado pena la gente que no lee, y no ya porque sean más incultos, que sin duda lo son; o porque estén más indefensos y sean menos libres, que también, sino, sobre todo, porque viven menos.

Os acostumados á desgracia, chegan a contar por súas as que afrixen aos demais.

Man's inhumanity to man, unleashed, was an obscenity, and that obscenity was each person's own private responsibility.

Her companionship had saved his reason, and in her own uncomplicated way she had got him through the blackest times, comforting by simply accepting his limitations.

She cared for everybody, and yet for no person's opinion.

He saw only that misery could be endured in the midst of misery. But set adjacent to the good fortune of others, it became far, far harder to bear.

There is such fear and exhaustion in their eyes that Erich says to Roger Erdman one morning, I find it difficult to look at them. I agree, says Roger. Because it could be us on those hard benches. And that's what we're most afraid of - to look out there and see ourselves.

Lev,' said Ruby, 'when I was younger, I always told people the things I thought they wanted to hear. But I don't do that anymore. It's a cruel thing to do. So I can't say now that you will be free of it ( grief) and move on, because I just don't know the answer.

The emphasis on empathy accomplishes several significant goals in view of a posthuman theory of subjectivity. Firstly, it reappraises communication as an evolutionary tool. Secondly, it identifies in emotions, rather than in reason, the key to consciousness.

What I have learned as a writer is that people love being asked about their stories.

There are those who would counter with the notion that women aren't shallow since we're appreciative of what a man

Never sleep with anyone whose troubles are worse than your own.

He hadn't wanted to be helped the way I wanted to help him, the way that helped me.

The long-term answer to a kid not caring about your concerns is to care more about his.

We all want our own way; some of us have the skills to get our own way adaptively, and some of us don't.

Behaviorally challenging kids are challenging because they're lacking the skills to not be challenging.

Your energy can be devoted far more productively to collaborating with your child on solutions to the problems that are causing challenging episodes than in sticking with strategies that may actually have made things worse and haven't led to durable improvement.