Quotes About Empathy

What mattered now was only that I understood what it meant to cherish others and to cherish life itself. I

It was only that I'd suffered like that, hour after hour, that I'd gone into the circle of hell and come back out. They hadn't been in the circle of hell. And I felt quiet all over. In this common occurrence, I understood the meaning of utter loneliness.

The greatest creative power you have on earth... is to help others. To ease pain and give joy are your finest powers. Kindness is a human miracle.

We are witnesses with both too much and too little feeling.

Oh, it seems a sin to ask compassion of the dead, those who died in pain, those I couldn't save, those for whom I didn't have the right farewells

We truly are all one tribe," said the iron-haired ghost softly. "Human, vampire, spirit, ghost—we're all sentient creatures bound to this planet. Why can't we work together in the face of something like this?

Love. Who knows about another's love? The more you love the more you know the burnt out loss of love, the more you heed the silence of unknowing in the face of another's spiritual bondage.

I struck him down for Deborah, and for all the poor and ignorant women I have seen screaming in the flames, for the women who have expired on the rack or in cold prison cells, for the families destroyed and for the villages laid waste by these awful lies.

We all need love, don't we, even the worst killers, the worst animals! We all need love.

He could not even see the images which I was seeing, so broken was his heart.

The entire history of evil in this world is related to what human beings do to one another in order to survive.

And I thought, Yes, this is true of us, this is why we must love one another, because we are each an entire world.

There is only value," said Derek, "to overcoming suffering and seeking to spare others the suffering one has known oneself!

You see, sometimes, Alex, we have to lose things to learn compassion. And sometimes we are overcome by change that arrives with some measure of violence, but leaves us transformed for the better.

Telling people-did it ever make things better?

But there is no value to suffering! There is only value, said Derek, to overcoming suffering and seeking to spare others the suffering one has known oneself!

Who said you had to be human to have a soul? Everything that is self-conscious and capable of thought and love has a soul. The soul emanates from self-conscious. The soul is the expression of self-consciousness. The soul is generated by organized self-consciousness.

But there is no value to suffering!

Do it for a world that will never knew you or thank you, but a world that you can now truly save.

Whatever you thought of the world, you should have let them have their time with it. It was their world and their time.

Perhaps the horror of my own life was that, no matter what I did or where I went, I always understood.

Rompió a llorar, cosa que yo nunca le había visto hacer. Y yo gocé de aquel instante pese a todo el dolor que contenía. Me dio vergüenza sentir aquello, pero no la solté. La mantuve abrazada con fuerza y tal vez la besé por todas las veces que no me había permitido hacerlo. Por un instante, parecíamos dos partes de una misma cosa.

Anger is too painful for me. Anger is too pathetic. I cannot hear it. I cannot act upon it.

You understood my soul, I thought, and now others are coming to sack its riches.