Quotes About Empathy

What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer.

There is no doubt that there is a huge difference between human and nonhuman animals. But what we are overlooking is the fact that nonhuman animals are conscious beings, that they can suffer.

The origin of all revolutions and corruption, and the spur and source of all base morals are just two sayings: The First Saying: 'So long as I'm full, what is it to me if others die of hunger?' The Second Saying: 'You suffer hardship so that I can live in ease; you work so that I can eat.'

There's no doubt that relationships do suffer when circumstances change profoundly.

Now I come to 75 years of age, I think what's most important in life is your conscience. If you told a lie and made other people suffer, I think that's very difficult when you reach this age.

You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.

There are moments that you suffer a lot, moments you won't photograph. There are some people you like better than others. But you give, you receive, you cherish, you are there. When you are really there, you know when you see the picture later what you are seeing.

I wanted to put a human face on anxiety disorders. I thought people who suffer from anxiety might recognize themselves and gain some comfort from my story and for those who don't suffer from anxiety disorders gain some understanding.

Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?

Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.

Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.

I don't like to see anyone suffer, and there's a very, very fine line between being healthy and working and totally down and out.

It's what great artists do. They suffer and feel more within the human condition than others. They're not better for that, just more sensitive, and there's a burden to that.

No individual, regardless of where they live or whom they love, should suffer discrimination.

Reading aloud to other people is wonderful - if you have people who will suffer it.

If I refused to get married, my parents would be brokenhearted and confused. Like any child close to her parents, I could not watch them suffer.

There's always pressure. People's happiness depends on you; they suffer with you. You get used to it, but you have to know how to handle it.

Many of us have experienced the pain that comes with watching a loved one suffer with a serious illness. We also know that we would do absolutely anything it takes to help them beat it.

Just because you are a woman doesn't mean you have to suffer more. We have to get that idea out of our heads.

All of the top managers I have come across during my career and befriend, they suffer as much with the defeats and when things don't go their way late in life as they did early in life.

By healing the internal issues that we can heal as a people, our children don't have to suffer the same agony and pain that we put each other through.

The likelihood is that you or someone you know closely will suffer from a mental health condition in your lifetime.

I wish 'Jal' could re-release so that the people could watch it and know how people from Rajasthan and other drought-affected areas suffer.

Social niceties are not in order for men who would turn away refugees fleeing for their lives based on their faith to have them suffer in camps.