Quotes About Empathy

Give the clergy your sympathy; don't give them anything else.

Indifference towards those in need is not acceptable for a Christian.

Once you find someone to share your ups and downs, downs are almost as good as ups.

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin

How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except the brain?

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

Jealousy is the very reverse of understanding, of sympathy, and of generous feeling. Never has jealousy added to character, never does it make the individual big and fine.

To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own

You can always get sympathy by using the word small. With little industries you feel as you do about a little puppy.

The happiest life has the greatest number of points of contact with the world, and it has the deepest feeling and sympathy with everything that is.

A vast deal of human sympathy runs along the electric line of needlework, stretching from the throne to the wicker chair of the humble seamstress.

I'm not looking for sympathy, just understanding.

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

If we have true love with sympathy and patient labor, we shall not go about scrutinizing our neighbor's shortcomings.

Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as it is nourished with kindness, sympathy, and understanding.

When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.

She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly believed I did not.

No one really understands the grief or joy of another.

Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.

They [the people under you] may desire help, but more than anything else they desire sympathy. Don't make the mistake of turning such men down with the statement that you have troubles of your own.

It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.