Quotes About Empathy

It is possible that some people are sorry for me, but I am not aware of it.

All the love in the world is useless when there is a total lack of understanding.

My dear parents," said the sister banging her hand on the table by way of an introduction, "things cannot go on any longer in this way. Maybe if you don't understand that, well, I do. I will not utter my brother's name in front of this monster, and thus I say only that we must try to get rid of it. We have tried what is humanly possible to take care of it and to be patient. I believe that no one can criticize us in the slightest.

Sometimes she would hide her eyes behind her hands, and then no words could get through to her.

Als Gregor schon zur Hälfte aus dem Bette ragte – die neue Methode war mehr ein Spiel als eine Anstrengung, er brauchte immer nur ruckweise zu schaukeln – , fiel ihm ein, wie einfach alles wäre, wenn man ihm zu Hilfe käme.

Oh, if only you knew how hard I try to find a kernel of good for myself in all you do and say, even if it torments me.

And it turns out we really do keep writing the same thing. I ask whether you're sick and then you write about it, I want to die and then you do, I want stamps and then you want stamps, sometimes I want to cry on your shoulder like a little boy and then you want to cry on mine like a little girl. And sometimes and ten times and a thousand times and always I want to be with you and you are saying the same thing. Enough, enough.

The less you torment yourself, the less you'll be tormenting me.

How can you hold their silence against others, and keep silent yourself?

Wenn Du vor mir stehst und mich ansiehst, was weißt Du von den Schmerzen, die in mir sind und was weiß ich von den Deinen. Und wenn ich mich vor Dir niederwerfen würde und weinen und erzählen, was wüsstest Du von mir mehr als von der Hölle, wenn Dir jemand erzählt, sie ist heiß und fürchterlich. Schon darum sollten wir Menschen voreinander so ehrfürchtig, so nachdenklich, so liebend steh'n wie vor dem Eingang zur Hölle.

We are like abandoned children lost in the woods. When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours. And if I were to cast myself down before you and weep and tell you, what more would you know about me than you know about Hell when someone tells you it is hot and dreadful? For that reason alone we human beings ought to stand before one another as reverently, as reflectively, as lovingly, as we would before the Gate of Hell.

One ought, Milena, to take your face in both hands and look you square in the eye, so that you would see yourself in the eyes of the other person, then you could not even think the kinds of things you wrote there.

Nöyryys sitoo meistä jokaisen, jopa yksinäisimmän, epätoivoisimman, vankimmin sitein muihin ihmisiin.

Exist? ÅŸi un orgoliu trist,îndrept??it,despre fericirea de a sta de vorb? în neÅŸtire cu oamenii.Cum poate vorb?ria asta s?-i bucure pe alÅ£ii mai mult decât pe mine!Prea târziu probabil,ÅŸi cu ocol straniu,întoarcerea spre oameni.

I can't fashion myself into a different person who might be better suited to be his friend.

Ormanda yolunu yitirmiÅŸ çocuklar gibi terk edilmiÅŸlik içerisindeyiz. Önümde durup bana bakt???nda, ne sen benim içimdeki ac?lar? anlayabiliyorsun, ne de ben seninkileri. Ve senin önünde kendimi yere atsam, aÄŸlasam ve anlatsam bile, biri sana cehennemi s?cak ve korkunçtur diye anlatt???nda cehennem hakk?nda ne bilebilirsen, benim hakk?mda da ancak o kadar?n? bilebilirsin.

When I was lying on the sofa and there was loud talking in the rooms on both sides of me, on the left only by women, on the right more by men, I had the impression that they are crude Negro-like unappeasable beings, who don't know what they're saying and only talk to make the air move, who lift their faces while talking and gaze after the words they speak.

Cuando uno se ha despedido definitivamente, como yo había hecho, y este hecho ha sido aceptado por el otro, entonces lo apropiado es resolver rápidamente lo pendiente y no hacerle padecer inútilmente al otro la silenciosa presencia.

Cómo soportas este mundo, noble corazón y dulces entrañas?

What was always incomprehensible to me was your total lack of feeling for the suffering and shame you could inflict on me with your words and judgments. It was as though you had no notion of your power.

Veien til medmennesket er for meg svært lang

He has a hunger for people, the way a born doctor does.

Yan?mda yürüyordun, bir düÅŸünsene, yan?mdayd?n!

Czy pani rozumie, droga panienko, co to za nag?a uciecha, gdy si? zosta?o tak ?wietnie zrozumianym, mimo ?e nawet si? do tego nie zmierza?o?