Quotes About Empathy

I realize that this is what it means to be lovers: using the same words to speak of the same things though one has never heard the other use them; these random similarities, this remarkable intimacy.

Je comprends alors qu'on ne voit pas les choses quand on regarde les êtres.

Para intentar comprender a la gente, hay que excavar hasta las raíces. No basta con darle un empujón al tiempo con el hombro para darle mejor aspecto; hay que arañar entre sus fisuras y obligarlo a dar el máximo. Ensuciarse las manos. A mí no me da asco.

When I see a dead bird," Hans Dorfer said to me, "and I pick it up in my hand, tears come into my eyes. I can't make them not come. Nothing can justify the death of a bird. But if my father croaked all of a sudden, right here, right next to me, I swear I'd dance around the table and buy you a drink. I swear.

It was the fear others felt, much more than hatred or some other emotion, that had made a victim of me. It was because fear had seized some of them by the throat that I was handed over to torturers and executioners, and it was also fear that had turned those same torturers, formerly men like me, into monsters; fear that had caused the seeds of evil, which we all carry, to germinate inside them.

Tiesa gali suraižyti rankas ir palikti tokias žaizdas, su kuriom nebegal?si gyventi, o daugelis m?s? labiausiai ir nori - gyventi. Ir kuo neskausmingiau. Tai žmogiška.

Cuando le pregunté si no le pesaba la soledad, se quedó pensando un buen rato y luego, con voz grave y serena dijo: «Estar solo es el sino del hombre, de un modo u otro». Me pareció una frase muy hermosa y muy falsa a la vez. Tú no estás a mi lado, pero es como si te sintiera junto a mí a cada segundo, y te hablo a menudo, en voz alta.

There comes a moment when the silence between two people can have the purity of a diamond.

When you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It's only painful & difficult for others. The same applies when you are stupid.

Pauvre petit Houellebecq, tout seul, avec sa valise trop lourde.)

Maupassant is a man of mitigating circumstances, the lawyer who can bring the jurors around by demonstrating that they too could have committed such a crime. We are all murderers.

Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

Love: two minds without a single thought.

We all know the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. But I contend there is a fourth -- one that is vitally important. You need it to teach the other three. In fact, you need it to teach everything effectively. It touches on all teaching and learning. The fourth R is rapport.

Children wish to be engaged with directly, even when a parent is willing to speak for them.

Whenever a child is taking a risk, one must never make light of it.

Even Philip Jones Griffiths, whose portrayal of suffering Vietnamese civilians forms perhaps the best photographic testament of the war, has said, "Your job is to record it all for history. You can't not feel involved, but you have to steel yourself and do your job, take your photographs. That's what you're there for. It's no use crying. You can't focus with tears in your eyes. It's better to do the breaking down later in the darkroom.

That made me remember why I got into this business in the first place-to protect people who couldn't protect themselves.

I'm already a monster!" she shrieked. "No, you're not!" Tom managed to heave himself to his knees. "You're my friend!" he shouted.

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.

My greatest rewards from women have been kisses on the cheek, a whispered thank-you for helping them manage their mothers-in-law, and even an invitation to tea.

Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.

Not belonging is a terrible feeling. It feels awkward and it hurts, as if you were wearing someone else's shoes.