Quotes About Empathy

Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.

When we hate a person, with an intimate, imaginative, human hatred, we enter into his mind, or sympathize -- any strong interest will arouse the imagination and create some sort of sympathy.

Explain me to myself, you'll make me choke on my lunch. Feel sympathy for me, I'll puke monkey blood on your understated shoes.

The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing!

How bless'd the heart that has a friend. A sympathizing ear to lend.

True sympathy is beyond what can be seen and touched and reasoned upon.

in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.

I had no sympathy for drama queens.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.

All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make me sad anddoes me evil, however much sympathy it may have with me or I with it.

You're always supposed to have sympathy for the person you're playing. You should be the one person who does.

Believe me, nothing is so calculated to lose you audience sympathy as too many tears. Move your listeners all you can but let them do the crying.

We must show sympathy with sinners, but not with their sins.

What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.

In all disappointments sympathy is a great balm.

A friend giveth sympathy in trouble.

The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind.

The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste their small store of sympathy on those who can provide it so richly for themselves.

He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.

To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.

He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour as well as application.

No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.

Where human life needs most sympathy, where usually it is the most barren, there it is that Christ is more likely to be found than anywhere else.

Accept these grateful tears...For thee they flow, for thee... That ever felt another's woe.