Quotes About Empathy

Gynaecologists are very smooth indeed. Because they have to listen to woeful and sordid symptoms they develop an expression of refinement and sympathy.

Chekhov will seek out the key situation in the life of a cabman or a charwoman, and make them glow for a brief moment in the tender light of his sympathy.

There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at the touch of consoling words, that would reveal the depths of our pain.

One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame

Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes

His is a loving, tender hand, full of sympathy and compassion.

Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.

Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.

The power to console is not within corporeal reach - though its attempt is precious.

It is only kindred griefs that draw forth our tears, and each weeps really for himself.

It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.

I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.

Don't act so callous to blank out good friends who failed on their way to success, just because something unusual hindered them, but you meandered out by a stroke of luck.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

Sympathy is a sweet thing.

No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.

It has been strange to me to return to life and to feel that I have any sympathy with human beings, after the long interval of quiet and indifference which succeeded my marriage.

I have a kind soul that would give you thanks. And knows not how to do it but with tears.

If you want to write in a mature and interesting way, you have to have sympathy for everyone that's involved.

I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood and suffering.

Sympathy is a shallow stream in the souls of those who have not suffered.

Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.