Quotes About Empathy

There has always been a fuss. The difference is that now you and others are listening.

I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.

the deep division that exists in the human race, regardless of any other more obvious distinction, between those for whom books are an obsession, and those who are prepared, good-humouredly enough, to tolerate their existence.

She saw that supreme dignity - and love - lay in tolerance.

Also, we need to help ourselves before we can benefit others: 'that one who is himself sinking in the mud should pull out another who is sinking in the mud is impossible; that one who is not himself sinking in the mud should pull out another who is sinking in the mud is possible', says the Buddha.

If you have known someone your whole life, you can see them in the dark.

I am not staying with the murderer," she said, her words muffled by his jacket. "I am not staying with the victim Abel Tannatek or the culprit Abel Tannatek. I am staying with the storyteller.

I don't know what happened between the two of you. I don't know if it can be forgiven. The hardest thing always is to forgive yourself.

A story isn't a good one unless it has a good listener

Anna took his hand to gauge the swelling. 'Let's at least put something cold around it. Frozen peas work pretty well.' 'Do I have to eat them?' 'No, you just have to inject them into a vein,' Anna said.

Cuando conoces a alguien desde hace mucho tiempo, puedes verlo hasta en la oscuridad.

The Rajah's handsome eunuch never guessed that she was telling him the tale of her own life.

Lo más difícil siempre es perdonarse a uno mismo.

I think there is writing genius as well—which consists primarily, I think, of the ability to place oneself in the shoes of one's audience; to assume only what they assume; to anticipate what they anticipate; to explain what they need explained; to think what they must be thinking; to feel what they must be feeling.

No necesito una novia. ¡Necesito un "te quiero" dicho con toda el alma! "Te quiero con tu tristeza y tu angustia; para sufrir contigo, y no para llevarte a ningún falso reino de la alegría.

Y yo la miro y siento que amo a la gente triste y silenciosa.

But I had done for them what no one had ever tried to do for me. To say, to their hopes: No.

Wouldn't it be nice to say to people we meet, "I know something good about you," and then treat them that way? (author unknown)

The popular element "feels" but does not always know or understand; the intellectual element "knows" but does not always understand and in particular does not always feel.

it disconcerts him not to be immune to the weakness that he finds so unpleasant in others.

Only Judith's presence expanded his capacity for seeing, opened his eyes to things he wouldn't have noticed without her.

You can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might never have met otherwise, either because they have been dead for centuries or because they spoke languages you cannot understand. And, nonetheless, they have become your closest friends, your wisest advisors, the wizards that hypnotize you, the lovers you have always dreamed of.

Nunca soy más yo mismo que cuando guardo silencio y escucho, cuando dejo a un lado mi fatigosa identidad y mi propia memoria para concentrarme del todo en el acto de escuchar, de ser plenamente habitado por las experiencias y los recuerdos de otros.

La cara no sólo es el espejo del alma, pensaba: también se va volviendo el espejo de las caras de los muertos.