Quotes About Empathy

Fear and pain and suffering is not OK for any being to feel intentionally at the hands of us.

Even if you were aware of children and felt compassion, when you have your own, it multiplies. It breaks your heart to know that there are so many children in the world suffering so much.

Suffering doesn't improve human beings, does it?

What can I say: I'm a writer - I enjoy forcing pain and suffering on my characters!

I don't want people who are in poverty, in pain, or suffering, to suffer because it's for their own good and they can pull themselves up by their bootstraps. I want to help them. I want us all to help them.

There's no better feeling in the world than knowing that my show played a role in stopping animal abuse or alleviating animal suffering.

One way to make a baby cry is to expose it to cries of other babies. There's sort of contagiousness to the crying. It's not just crying. We also know that if a baby sees another human in silent pain, it will distress the baby. It seems part of our very nature is to suffer at the suffering of others.

I think I get angry when people cause serious suffering or don't alleviate suffering when they could.

You don't want to diminish anybody's pain and suffering.

A compassionate heart will lift you out of the pain and suffering of your own world because it knows that everyone is doing the best they can, given their state of consciousness and the histories they're dragging behind them.

Verdiana was the child of poor though well-born parents, and her knowledge of the sufferings of the poor from her own experience in early years made her ever full of pity for those in need.

When someone is suffering, you have to see this in the body and the face. I say all the time that actors use their bodies like objects of war.

History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.

I always say now it's the indifference that kills patients in the field and different populations. We have to break our indifference towards the suffering of people elsewhere.

Many Russia experts note the deep and sad capacity of the Russian people for suffering.

Whether or not one has won the Nobel Prize, each of us living in contact with our fellowmen feels a joint responsibility for all forms of suffering, both physical and moral.

There is no way Israel will deal with the Palestinians if the Palestinians do not understand the suffering of the Jewish people.

I believe Jews are compassionate people because of what we've suffered. We must not put that suffering onto others.

I've seen suffering first-hand, and we have to make sure we relieve people's suffering.

Musicians keep playing when the lights go out, when people are suffering, confused, or angry.

I have two children of my own; I can't imagine anything more horrific than to have a child suffering with EB.

Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way.

My mother suffers mental health problems and has a learning deprivation.

It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it.