Quotes About Empathy

people can surprise you in so many ways, both with cruelty and with kindness.

It was true, when you saved someone, they belonged to you in some small way, but it was also true that you belonged to them. They would stay with you and enter into your dreams and your thoughts, as you would enter into theirs.

Never watch another woman burn

People will disappoint you with their cruelty every time

She said she wanted a man like that, someone who understood sorrow, not someone who caused it.

The sisters were glad to be together. They had the easy sort of relationship where they didn't have to speak to be understood.

what does love matter in a world where it's so easy to hurt someone?

He's nothing fierce or terrible or filled with light. He's like us, sometimes we can't even tell him apart. Sometimes we're the ones who try to save him. He's there to show us who we are. Human beings aren't gods. We makes mistakes.

He realized how little he knew of this world, but he knew this: If you could love someone, you possessed a soul.

Everyone should know exactly what everyone else is thinking and then people wouldn't hurt each other so much.

That just goes to show that you never can tell about a person by guessing, Frances informs her niece. That's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.

I would rather hurt myself than be hurt by someone else, and so I took up this practice with a sense of purpose and without remorse.

Seeing has little to do with opening your eyes; it's what you feel inside that counts, it's what you know without anyone telling you.

She has an eye for tragedy and sorrow.

Be grateful if you have walked through the world with another's heart in your hand.

Demons were said to be cruel, but a demon would never have been so brutal as this. A demon merely called you by name, threw his arms around you, whispered his plight, understood yours, then took you for his own.

When Juliet came flying down the hallway, Stella didn't recognize her friend. Juliet hadn't bothered with makeup; she was wearing a nightgown underneath her raincoat and had on plastic flip-flops. This was the way loved walked in, barely dressed, confused, panic-stricken, overcome, not caring what anyone thought or what they believed.

Likely it was true that the flaws you saw in other women you didn't notice in yourself.

Mean people are meaningless.

I didn't understand that when I closed myself to her, I took a part of her bitterness inside me. It was green and unforgiving, and as it grew it made me more like her. It gave me my strength, but it gave me my weakness as well.

If this was what angels observed when they gazed upon our world, how we might murder each other and cause one another agony, then I pitied them as I pitied no others.

Her gift with wild birds allowed her to bring them to her merely by lifting her hand. From a distance, when she ran so fast she was nearly flying, it seemed as if she spoke their language, and was meant for their world more than her own.

a place where people heard what she said but not what she meant. She wanted to be known, but no one knew her.

In the human world you had to choose your loyalties carefully. You had to see through to someone's heart.