Quotes About Empathy

God has created us and poured love into our hearts so that we may do our best to alleviate the suffering that is around us.

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.

To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.

Tell the people... please, tell the people of Alabama that I love them. Tell them I'm suffering a lot, but I love them.

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

Does anyone really go into nursing intending to be apathetic, cold and removed from suffering? I find that very difficult to believe.

When you see a person you love being affected, suffering, people saying things that aren't true... then it hurts you.

I have so many people out there that celebrate with me when they know that I'm happy. And they hate it when they know that I'm suffering because someone has hurt me.

All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least.

I've seen my own blood and broken a few bones. I've been hit, which isn't an entirely bad thing, as at least you have a glimpse of the suffering endured by the people you are photographing. And in a sense, crumbling empires and war have been with me all my life.

In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.

Human suffering is not a competitive sport.

Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.

When you see people suffering and dying and hungry, this job gives you the ability to do something about it.

I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been traumatised in the countries from which they've fled.

I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book.

I believe in people, especially suffering people.

As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.

How can you regret helping a suffering patient?

In high school, I had two friends that were suffering from cancer. I would go and sing for them while they were in hospital, and I sang at their services after they passed.

There is some suffering that awaits us all.

For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less should find it edifying?

In our own lives and in our communities, we need to find a way to include others rather than exclude them. We need to find a way to allow our pain and suffering, individually and collectively.

I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.