Quotes About Empathy

true friends are those who rid us of life's burdens

According to Dio, he promised not to "take any cruel action simply because I have conquered

In fact, his silent foreknowledge of the conspiracy suggests that he was not without sympathy with them

That said, he did not want Antony destroyed

His biographer, Cornelius Nepos, a younger contemporary whom he knew personally, wrote that Atticus "behaved so as to seem at one with the poorest and on a level with the powerful.

Evil is not something instilled in a few unlucky persons by a malicious Lucifer. If we are to understand "evil" at all, we must think of it as a word—an emotional word—we use to describe actions performed by other humans that we experience as breathtakingly horrible, shocking, and, often enough, nauseating.

What more passed between them I do not know. I think that the Queen told my wife more, but women will sometimes keep women's secrets even from their husbands; though they love us, yet we are always in some sort the common enemy, against whom they join hands.

She tried to smile sympathetically, but with her face it wasn't quite possible.

I don't know what I'd do without you. There's no one else to look after me. And it's not just that. I sometimes think you're the only person who really knows me. I only feel normal when I'm with you.

Smiling back at her, it occurs to me that I've never met a mean librarian.

You see the world this way because you're greedy and mad. People give to charity because they want to help.

Fangio had once said: 'You should never think of a car as a piece of metal. It's a living being with a heart that beats. It can feel happy or sad. It all depends on how you treat it.

It was the reference to Down's syndrome that most upset him. Mary described it as an 'awful sickness'. It wasn't. It was a condition, not an illness. What sort of woman could see it as a threat to her own bloodline? Had she really pulled up the drawbridge on her son's marriage simply to protect future grandchildren from

He saved my life. In a way, I loved him. I love you too, Alex. You are so very much like him. I'm glad that you're here with me now.

There are a lot of people who don't like a lot of people but they don't go around the place murdering them.

We need to tolerate intolerance

As for myself, I felt nothing but pity for Marc Bellamy. I'd been through the private-education system myself – another version of the full English – and knew only too well how the casual cruelty and the pack mentality that he had described could stay with you for the rest of your life.

It was that woman! They put her on trial!' She turned back to Hawthorne. 'I don't know how anyone could do that, drive away from the scene of the accident. And those two little children, lying there! What a bitch!

His chest was heaving. He was on the edge of tears. "You've never tried to see things my way. You don't have any understanding what it's like being me.

It's amazing, really, the invisible process that can turn complete strangers into friends.

Each book was a friend.

But if she'd known him better, she might have been a little less curt with him. I saw the anger stirring in his eyes and it made me think of a crocodile rising from the mud.

The worst time to feel alone is when you're in a crowd.

Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everyone's heart