Quotes About Empathy

But gomers are not just dear old people," said Fats. "Gomers are human beings who have lost what goes into being human beings. They want to die, and we will not let them. We're cruel to the gomers, by saving them, and they're cruel to us, by fighting tooth and nail against our trying to save them. They hurt us, we hurt them.

GOMER: Get Out of My Emergency Room; "a human being who has lost—often through age—what goes into being a human being" (the Fat Man).

when Mrs. Risenshein arrested and I was surprised to hear myself cursing under my breath as I resuscitated her, "I wish she would die so I could just go to sleep," and I was shocked when I realized that I'd just wished a human being dead so I could go to sleep. Animal. Eat

And yet that hardness brings out the softness in us all

I hate my life.' I want to say, I know. I kind of hate mine, too. But I don't think you're allowed to say that to your children. You're supposed to protect them from realizing how excruciating things can get and that you have no control.

She hadn't been taught to have prejudices, so she didn't.

The bullies who instilled that hatred were never made to account. I think they should. I think they should because he died that day, too.

You'd probably be pretty good at it. But even with terrific language skills, you couldn't come close to describing what it's like to be a team player, Griff. Because you don't know.

It was difficult to sympathize with a protagonist whose dilemma was mild when compared to her own.

Hoot, the odds are good that we're going to locate bones, and that'll be all that's left of those ladies who had futures, dreams, and people who loved them. Now, can you look at the faces in those pictures and still whine about a little bad weather? Hmm?

There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. Mahatma Gandhi I

Marriage has taught me that women are the only ones who apologize.

You really don't understand what it's like to have bad parents, do you?

So he thinks he has a baby and everything falls into place? What gets me is, people have babies and they're thinking what the baby will do for them . It's sick.

She couldn't know anyone, but someone still needed her. She couldn't be anyone, but she could still love.

because in point of fact we would have come flying if we had known remotely how much he was suffering.

My ex—who was an academic—and I used to argue about the best way to broil a salmon. Neither of us was grateful for the gift that someone else might cook it, albeit slightly incorrectly. It was a horrible way to live.

More than any of us, she had written her own story; yet she could not wash it out with all her tears, return to her victims what she had torn from them, and by so doing, save herself...

understanding can only come from a recognition of each other's history.

The Lemon Tree Important to read for those who care about the conflict between Palistinians and jews

they cried out desperately for help, for pity, for water, for air, for a scrap of humanity.

Dalia was the only one in Israel who understood," Bashir insisted.

One can use standard principles and textbooks in educating people for law, medicine, architecture, chemistry or almost any other profession—but not for the theater. For, in most professions, every practitioner uses the same tools and techniques, while the actor's chief instrument is himself. And since no two persons are alike, no universal rule is applicable to any two actors in exactly the same way.

it is only through forgiveness that wrongs can be put right.