Quotes About Empathy

I hope that this man can be won over by your bearing charitably with him, advising him prudently, and praying for him. This is what I do for your family in general and for you in particular.

I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse.... I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent man, a void and a deep need.

Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men

Be kind to an old man.

The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.

In places where men are used to differences they inevitably become tolerant.

That's me, man – I'm a lover not a fighter.

If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.

I draw no petty social lines. A man to me is a man, wherever I find him.

No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own soul.

Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.

Every woman must admit, and every man with as much sense as a woman, that it's very hard to make a home for any man if he's always in it.

It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.

Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!

I love all men and women. I am a lover of humanity, not a hater.

Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poor, men and women alike.

Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.

The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it

What can you say about such a man as Christopher Reeve? He embodied all the best that a human being can hope to be.

The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.

[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.

The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.

A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.