Quotes About Empathy

No one knew the desert better than Scholscher, who had spent so many nights alone there on the starlit dunes, and no one understood better than he did that need for protection which sometimes grips men's hearts and drives them to give a dog the affection they dream so desperately of receiving themselves. And certainly this deep feeling of helplessness had never been more agonizing than now.

and one evening she came across him in the middle of the Maidaguri road, where he lay, his face in the dust, in the midst of a group of natives who were laughing with that light, eternal laughter which is their way of enduring all things.

Tout ce que je veux dire, c'est que si les hommes cédaient toujours à ce qu'il y a en eux de plus humain, il y a longtemps qu'ils ne seraient plus des hommes.

Je me souviens que je lui ai dit ça très franchement, il faut maigrir pour manger moins, mais c'es très dur pour une vieille femme qui est seule au monde. Elle a besoin de plus d'elle-même que les autres. Lorsqu'il n'y a personne pour vous aimer autour, ça devient de la graisse.

Žinoma, galime toli nuklysti, bet juk negali r?pintis vien savimi pa?iu, taip visai sukvail?si. Galvodamas apie Kambodž? ir panašius dalykus, mažiau galvoji apie save pat?. Kai nepakankamai galvoji apie kitus, tada per daug galvoji apie save, <...>.

But she could feel that behind his words there was something nice and rather odd — kind people are often odd, she had explained to Saint-Denis, and she had added, rather mysteriously: it can't be otherwise.

I always had a strong reluctance to hurt people, which is always the best way of hurting oneself.

sokoote donafare adamaro beham nazdik mikone /

Of what use are such as cannot serve! Yet these are the most innocent victims of this war. They have not taken part in it, and nothing had prepared them for such calamities.

We cannot stop the war, but we can make it less bitter. There are medicines for the body. We need medicines for the soul, to dress the wounds of hatred and vengeance by which the world is being poisoned.

The true man of culture is not he who makes of himself and his ideal the center of the universe, but who looking around him sees, as in the sky the stream of the Milky Way, thousands of little flames which flow with his own; and who seeks neither to absorb them nor to impose upon them his own course, but to give himself the religious persuasion of their value and of the common source of the fire by which all alike are fed.

To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime.

To understand everything is to hate nothing.

No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books.

he was simply a man who had gone even further into loneliness than others - and that's a real exploit, by the way; where breaking records in loneliness is concerned, we're all champions in the field. ..........he continually repeats: "dogs are not enough anymore. People feel so damned lonely, they need company, they need something bigger, stronger, to lean on, something that can really stand up to it all. Dogs aren't enough; what we need is elephants.......

Relationship movies are often made for a female audience.

To wish a healthy man to die is the wish from a mind of sickness. To wish an ailing man to die is the wish of the ambitious.

Yes, in a woman, looks are the most important thing... But it's not how she looks 'to' us, so much as 'how she looks at' us.

Es sind die vorgefaßten Meinungen, die es den Völkern so schwer machen, einander zu verstehen, und die es ihnen so leicht machen, einander zu verachten.

Are all humans human? Or are some more human than others?

Victims were not responsible for what happened to them.

joined the circle and prayed with these men [homeless] who seemed on the outside to have nothing to give but had been giving, without our knowing it, the most precious gift of all: compassion.

I mourn the mutual wounds inflicted in verbal battles with the "unsaved." In fact, I have chosen to delete that particular term from my vocabulary as I have learned that even with my $500 European-designer bifocals, I cannot see into a person's heart to know his spiritual condition. All I can do is tell the jagged tale of my own spiritual journey and declare that my life has been the better for having followed Christ.

was embarrassed that I once thought myself superior to him, stooping to sprinkle my wealth and wisdom into his lowly life.