Quotes About Empathy

You are not alone, Ash. I am with you. My soul is always with you.

When she saw the severed head she fainted dead away. What can I say, she's a woman." "I don't know what it has to do with being a woman," Daiyu responded in a serious tone of voice. "I think anyone might faint at such a ghoulish sight. I mean, if this weren't our job, a few of us might be under a doctor's care right about now." The investigator looked properly chastened,

I don't mind introducing you, but I have to warn you that she has a tendency to take over people's lives. Also, she sometimes comes out with bizarre and even paranoid remarks, and the best thing is just to say 'Yes, yes' and act sympathetic.

Within each film I have become one with many different kinds of people, and I have lived their lives. For this reason, in order to prepare for the making of a new film, it requires a tremendous effort to forget the people in the film that went before.

However, my contact with the movies at this age has, I feel, no relation to my later becoming a film director. I simply enjoyed the varied and pleasant stimulation added to ordinary everyday life by watching the motion-picture screen. I relished laughing, getting scared, feeling sad and being moved to tears.

No puedo permitirme odiar a nadie. No tengo tanto tiempo

Now, don't get angry, Kei-chan. We're both crybabies, aren't we? Only now you've become a romantic crybaby and I'm a humanist crybaby.)

No matter where I go in the world, although I can't speak any foreign language, I don't feel out of place. I think of the earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is, and they would put an end to it.

I can't afford to hate anyone. I don't have that kind of time.

No matter where I go in the world, although I can't speak any foreign language, I don't feel out of place. I think of earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is and they would put an end to it.

I had been ready to reproach her for the indignities she had caused me to suffer in the past, but suddenly I was moved by this figure of an old woman I no longer recognized, and all I could do was stare vacantly down at her.

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Sometimes all you had to do was breathe to ruin somebody's else's day.

She had lost her compassion for people and a thick crust of indifference had formed around her feelings - that disgust that afflicts the exhausted, the frustrated, and the perverted and prevents them from sympathizing with others.

He was a shitty husband, a cruel and distant father, and had absolutely no empathy for other human beings.

Les mauvais médecins seraient donc ceux qu'on aime assez pour vouloir les intéresser à ses propres maux; et les bons médecins sont ceux au contraire qui vous demandent selon l'usage: "Comment allez-vous?" et qui n'écoutent pas la réponse.

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.

love is a skill, not just an enthusiasm.

The people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair. People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don't know.

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing each other.