Quotes About Empathy

After 'A Perfect Storm' came out, I heard from a young reader, who had suffered a similar background as 'Arizona,' that I had helped her to find peace. That was the most amazing thing in the world to me.

It's easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through.

It is difficult to ever think about your loved one having suffered.

My mother started to suffer from multiple sclerosis, but nobody knew what MS was then. My father didn't - and later he suffered a great deal of guilt over that. It was an awful business and very fraught.

Many a woman has suffered at the hands of a Paul Morel. There's more than one way of being brutal.

Look at black people dying and suffering in South Africa. I ask why. We've dropped bombs on no one, we've harmed no one in the world, yet for some incredible reason, black people have suffered at an extraordinary level all over the world.

I have suffered racial prejudice, and I know how painful it is. People need to take this issue more seriously and engage in this fight against racism.

People who have suffered know more about compassion.

I did have friends who have suffered from schizophrenia and mild dissociative identity disorder, as well as more extreme cases of social anxiety disorder.

I have endured pain and suffering in my life, things haven't always been easy, I have suffered. And now I can help people in their lives.

When I got to know about my cancer, I was at the rock bottom of my life, and my work suffered for it.

I suffered too much and I want to stop the suffering of other people.

There will be occasions when someone has suffered a crime where it is either obvious that they are not looking for an investigation or that there are no investigative opportunities and you just have to be up front about that.

I've suffered a little bit with depression in the past and I also have friends who have gone through depression.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.

We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians. We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country.

When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

We're in business to relieve human suffering, to help feed the poor, to provide education and culture - but above all else, we're concerned with the relief of human suffering.

We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.

Suffering does not discriminate.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.