Quotes About Empathy

Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.

But better far it is to speak One simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men.

Sympathy is never waisted except when you give it to yourself.

Ultimately, we'll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.

According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.

When griefs are genuine, I find, there is nothing more vacuous, more burdensome, or even more impertinent, than letters of consolation.

There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.

When you need someone To talk to Or just to be with you Remember there is someone close by That someone is me

True sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

You have to have sympathy for the villain. Even the most disgusting ones, you have to find something to connect with. I try to put as much of myself in every single character that I play.

A funeral is for those left behind. Sometimes, one wonders if the weeping is more out of fear for ourselves than it is sympathy for the deceased.

The world is full of tragedy; and sympathy, a little common sympathy, can do so much to soften the worst of grief. It is for the lack of that, that people despair and go down.

Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs; thus are we men.

There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

Intercession is about putting ourselves in other's shoes or having sympathy with others. But intercessions are about having the mind of God and see things through His perspective

The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold.

The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.

When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.

To those who fall and hurt themselves one runs with comfort; by those who lie dangerously stricken by a disease one sits and waits.

All you're supposed to do is every once in a while give the boys a little tea and sympathy.

Sympathy feels like a performative word, whereas empathy is human.

What really arouses indignation against suffering is not suffering as such but the senselessness of suffering...

When peoples cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's bless'd.