Quotes About Empathy

Maak liever je eigen fouten dan die van een ander aan te wijzen. Oordelen is het tegenovergestelde van scheppen, dat is de dood in de pot.

Zou je geen medelijden krijgen met alles wat normaal is?' verzucht Rosa. Zij wendt haar gezicht af en drukt zich tegen Lemmy aan. 'Je zo bedreigd te moeten voelen door alles wat een beetje afwijkt!

Mensen die denken dat je leed kunt delen met woorden hebben zelf nooit iets meegemaakt. Uit dingen die worden gezegd valt geen enkele troost te peuren. Het delen van stilte, dat is het enige waaraan ik behoefte heb.

Elke dag weer moeten wij vechten om gehoord te worden. Hoe het ín ons is zal een ander nooit verstaan, maar wij blijven het proberen, met elk woord en elke klank opnieuw.

A playwright is the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about. He is a kind of psychic journalist, even when he's great.

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.

Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.

I don't say he's a great man. Willie Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He's not to be allowed to fall in his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must finally be paid to such a person.

You knew what I wanted." "And you knew what I wanted." "Yeah, to make yourself feel pretty at someone's agony. Fuck you.

If I were a better version of me, I would not react faster than I think, would not be wounded when no harm was intended, would understand before too much time had passed to forgive...

Revolutionär ohne Mut, abenteuerlustig ohne die Fähigkeit, Unbequemlichkeiten zu ertragen — Egoist ohne Rücksichtslosigkeit - und endlich ein Künstler ohne Fleiß - ein Selbstkenner ohne Tendenz zur Besserung — ein Verächter des allgemeinen Urteils mit der kleinlichsten Empfindlichkeit

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

Poetry has a crucial role to play in our lives, society, and the world. It helps us slow down, hear clearly, see deeply, and envision what matters most in our lives."—Arthur Sze

When tempted to be disgusted at the dullness of another, or to be revenged on one who has wronged you, call to remembrance God's infinite patience and longsuffering with yourself.

One recommendation I venture to make, Mr. Bashforth. If ever you again approach an ugly woman in this way, bear in mind that even ugly women, conscious as they may be of their defects, have their dreams.

Sometimes conceiving an affection for an animal is easier than for a human.

Když se nepovede sebevražda, není to nezbytn? ta nejsmutn?jší v?c na sv?t?. ?lov?ku se nem?že poda?it všechno.

Books are doors that lead out into the street," Patricia would tell her. "You learn from them, educate yourself, travel, dream, imagine, live other lives, multiply your own life a thousand times. Where can you get more for your money, Mexicanita? And they also keep all sorts of bad things at bay: ghosts, loneliness, shit like that.

In affairs of the heart, Princess," César used to say, "one should offer neither advice nor solutions ... just a clean hanky when it seems appropriate.