Quotes About Empathy

He had no racial feeling—not because he was superior to his brother civilians, but because he had matured in a different atmosphere, where the herd instinct does not flourish.

Lucy was slow to follow what people said, but quick enough to detect what they meant. She missed Cecil's epigram, but grasped the feeling that prompted it.

How indeed is it possible for one human being to be sorry for all the sadness that meets him on the face of the earth, for the pain that is endured not only by men, but by animals and plants, and perhaps by the stones? The soul is tired in a moment, and in fear of losing the little she does understand, she retreats to the permanent lines which habit or chance have dictated, and suffers there.

Kindness, more kindness, and even after that more kindness. I assure you it is the only hope.

Because we think it improves our characters. But he is kind to people because he loves them; and they find him out, and are offended, or frightened.

We are not in the law courts. There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.

She was appallingly narrow, but her consciousness of wider things gave to her narrowness a pathetic charm.

Mr. Fielding, no one can ever realize how much kindness we Indians need, we do not even realize it ourselves. But we know when it has been given. We do not forget, though we may seem to. Kindness, more kindness, and even after that more kindness. I assure you it is the only hope.

Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.

He picked up his friend, who was so weak that he began to cry. "Maurice – I'm a fool." "Be a fool," said Maurice, and carried him upstairs, undressed him, and put him to bed.

Indeed, he was sensitive rather than responsive. In every remark he found a meaning, but not always the true meaning, and his life, though vivid, was largely a dream.

Maurice did not understand, but the voice soothed him.

O colégio interno de] Sunnington foi a etapa seguinte na carreia de Maurice. (...) Tendo sido maltratado enquanto caloiro, maltratava outros que parecessem infelizes ou fracos, não porque fosse cruel, mas porque era o que se devia fazer. ------------------- p. 22, MAURICE, E.M.FORSTER

You show so very clearly that intelligence and sympathy are superficial - good enough things in their way - they do what they can and would gladly do more; but the real thing is "being there", and the worst of it is, no two human beings can be in the same place

She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love. The impulse had come before to-day, but never so strongly.

Perhaps we woke up one another. I like to think that anyway.

He is the sort who are all right so long as they keep to things—books, pictures—but kill when they come to people.

my job's Education. I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals. It's the only thing I do believe in.

Fielding! how's one to see the real India?" "Try seeing Indians.

You are young, dears, and however clever young people are, and however many books they read, they will never guess what it feels like to grow old.

Now, what is the good of driblets? To go through life having done one thing — to have raised one person from the abyss; not these puny gifts of shillings and blankets — making the grey more grey. No doubt people will think me extraordinary.

It all turns on affection now," said Margaret. "Affection. Don't you see?" Resuming her usual methods, she wrote the word on the house with her finger. "Surely you see. I like Helen very much, you not so much. Mr. Mansbridge doesn't know her. That's all. And affection, when reciprocated, gives rights. Put that down in your note-book, Mr. Mansbridge. It's a useful formula.

Being clever they did not care for animals. One man had never seen a hedgehog. ~from The Longest Journey

Exclusion makes us suffer, inclusion makes us thrive.