Quotes About Empathy

Pity addresses the perceived suffering, not the whole individual.

Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.

My mother was suffering every day of her life, and what right did I have to be happy if she was suffering? So whenever I got happy about something, I felt the need to cut it off, and the only way to cut it off was to pray. 'Forgive me Lord.' For what, I didn't know.

It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness.

Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.

Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.

I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are.

When we forgive someone, it doesn't excuse their actions; it frees us from our own chronic stress and suffering, so it's in our own self-interest.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

We all need to realize that there are people out there who may be suffering and we all need to try to do our part to relieve that suffering when we can.

Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.

Sometimes when you're suffering really intensely, you can't pray for yourself.

Mindfulness helps you to be where you are when you're there. When I'm interacting with constituents who are suffering, that matters.

A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene.

Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.

What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving.

For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.

We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.

Bottom 10 Percent progressives are not enthusiastic about concentrations of wealth. But that's not what keeps them up at night. Their focus is on deprivation and lack of opportunity. They're motivated by empathy for people who are suffering, rather than outrage over unjustified wealth.

I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed.

I'm definitely more understanding of people who have disabilities and who are suffering.

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did.

We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.