Quotes About Empathy

Ma non aveva mai tenuto conto della natura umana. Aveva sempre considerato le persone come casi da trattare e problemi da risolvere. Non aveva mai capito che ciascun essere umano era diverso, aveva le proprie idiosincrasie, avrebbe reagito diversamente. Già allora l'aveva ammonita a non aspettarsi troppo. Ma lei si era sempre aspettata troppo, anche se non voleva ammetterlo, e così era sempre rimasta delusa.

The fact that you can sit down and write something, and that then it passes direct from you to someone else, is a much happier and more natural feeling than handing out cheques or things of that kind.

He has not got 'flu,' said Hercule Poirot. 'He has only a nasty cold. Everyone always thinks they have 'flu. It sounds more important. One gets more sympathy. The trouble with a catarrhal cold is that it is hard to glean the proper amount of sympathetic consideration from one's friends.

Derisi ne renk olursa olsun herkes insand?r. Bütün insanlar karde?tir.

I felt somehow I ought to warn her. I felt that perhaps she didn't know how stupid and unreasoning and violent jealousy and hate can be—and how little it takes to set them smouldering.

To make the wax figures and stick in the pins, it is silly, yes, it is childish, yes—but it does something useful too. You took the hate out of yourself and put it into that little figure. And with the pin and the fire you destroyed—not your stepmother—but the hate you bore her. Afterwards, even before you heard of her death, you felt cleansed, did you not—you felt lighter—happier?

Poirot had the capacity to attract confidences. It was as though when people were talking to him they hardly realised who it was they were talking to.

It's so stupid never to feel anything…

For some reason, Poirot had always been a person it was easy to talk to.

You do not like anyone less because they have tuberculosis or some other fatal disease.

One had to humour him a little, of course. But then I always find one has to do that with men.

That is where you make a mistake, dear," said Miss Marple. "Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realize it.

Saber que uno ha hecho un mal irreversible a otro ser humano es la carga más pesada que puede tener nadie que soportar».

I'd rather a man felt that he was enjoying himself looking after me than that he should feel I was a duty to be attended to

But you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.

Tell him we thank him and we will pray for him." Hercule Poirot said gently: "He needs your prayers." "Is he then an unhappy man?" Poirot said: "So unhappy that he has forgotten what happiness means. So unhappy that he does not know he is unhappy." The nun said softly: "Ah, a rich man..." Hercule Poirot said nothing—for he knew there was nothing to say...

Yes, yes, I know that. But why did you fall in love with him? What attracted you to him so much?" She crinkled her eyes as though trying to see through the eyes of a girl now dead.

Two people who have suffered unhappiness have a great bond in common.

Melchett is a wise man. He knows that when it is a question of an irate middle-aged lady, there is only one thing to be done—listen to her. When she had said all that she wants to say, there is a chance that she will listen to you.

But I did really want to know. I mean, it's interesting, don't you think, to know all about people? What they feel and think, I mean, not just who they are and what they do.

I must have a talk with you, David, and learn all the new ideas. As far as I can see, one must hate everybody but at the same time give them free medical attention and a lot of extra education, poor things! All those helpless little children herded into schoolhouses every day—and cod liver oil forced down babies' throats whether they like it or not—such nasty-smelling stuff.

Las mujeres no acostumbran a ser crueles con los hombres, a menos de que se trate de uno en particular; solo lo somos con las mujeres.

Women are never kind,' remarked Poirot. 'Though they can sometimes be tender.

Chi è molto buono con gli altri sa anche essere molto crudele.