Quotes About Empathy

To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness

Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful mother.

It's the challenge of trying to evoke any kind of sympathy for a role that ordinarily we would say, "Oh, this is a bad guy" and dismiss him.

One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially from his belief in their sympathy with him.

The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.

The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.

The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humour, curiosity, and self-importance.

If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.

Great ages of art come only when a widespread creative impulse meets an equally widespread impulse of sympathy . . .

True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.

May it make your sorrow Easier for you to bear Knowing there are others Who understand and care.

The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

I do not think that one is likely to write a good biography unless one feels some sympathy with its subject.

Don't stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether it can feel at all: respect it and consider all life sacred.

Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.

They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George.

To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world--without friends or country, home or kindred.

...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.

The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.

I answered my father's demands for sympathy with silence.

Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.

Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.

A sympathetic look always makes me feel sorry for myself.