Quotes About Empathy

When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.

September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.

Why is that when people become ill and have something wrong with any of their organs, they get sympathy from other people - except when that organ is their brain?

The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.

Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.

Needs there groan a world in anguish just to teach us sympathy?

All powerful souls have kindred with each other

Israel also deprived the world of its chance of shedding tears of genuine sympathy over her destruction. The world resents this; it likes to feel noble and sympathetic.

Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.

There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.

O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?

Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.

With empathy, I'm fully with them, not full of them — that's sympathy.

Who can tell what metals the gods use in forging the subtle bond which we call sympathy, which we might as well call love.

When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.

We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility

The idea is to develop sympathy for your own confusion.

Empathy fuels connection; sympathy drives disconnection.

The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.

Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he'd tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied.

Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.

A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity.

Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification.

I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.