Quotes About Empathy

Could kindness – by only ever taking little steps – twist itself into the worst kind of cruelty?

This one could turn her back on her own dying father, or watch a blinded man whimper in pain and not give one cold cuss.

I haven't needed anything big enough from you to justify being pleasant, and I doubt I ever will.

None of us is a monster, Chiku. We're all just trying to make the best of our singular natures.

This is a kindness, a thing done to another human being for no reason other than compassion. A private, dignified act of basic human decency, which history, being the bastard that it is, will probably neglect to commemorate. You

We don't own them, and we don't have any claims on moral superiority. But after all we've done to them in the past we do have an obligation to shepherd them through to better times.' He

Surely you can hear him now?

Perhaps there was some loop or circuit missing from the brains of people like Garlin, some absent process that prevented them from seeing themselves from outside their own skin, in all their ludicrousness. But to a degree, Sparver reflected, it must also be absent from those they swept up into their movements.

Nonetheless, we offer our forgiveness. What is the point in being a superior civilisation if you can't do that once in a while?

I think that we're all, as human beings, so limited. If we want to write about ourselves, that's fairly easy. And if we write about our friends or our families, we can do that. But if we want to project ourselves somewhere beyond our personal experience, we're going to fail unless we get that experience or we borrow it from others.

Sometimes you develop a passion for something because of some personal experience.

I've never had a personal experience with cancer.

Cinema is empathy machinery, and we multiply our life experience through cinema. When it is good cinema, it almost counts as a personal experience.

I feel that kids are smart, and I feel that kids will understand things even if they don't understand them from personal experience.

Even in my personal life, I can't bear to have bad feelings.

I know that in my own personal life, the people who I have dated who are funny can get away with a lot more than the people who aren't.

I became very patient. There are a lot of times when people who do not like you are talking about you and telling bad things on your face. In our personal life, we do get affected by such things.

My album, 'No Shame,' will give my fans an extremely real and heartfelt experience of what I have been going through in my personal life.

If there is something that has worked for me or not worked for me in my personal life then it is because I was at fault somewhere and may be the other person was at fault.

Business always requires personal relationships.

To all the women that I've offended, I had no intention to be offensive, to violate any physical or emotional space. I was trying to establish personal relationships, but the combination of awkwardness and hubris led to behavior that I think many found offensive.

All things come down to your personal relationships.

While we have to take personal responsibility for our actions, I have a great deal of empathy for people who are unconsciously racially biased, and indeed count myself among their number.

My approach to writing is, it's either going to be a personal story about me and what I've personally been through, or it's going to be inspired by a friend.