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Quotes About Empathy

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Men need to live and breathe women.
~ Adam Levine
Nothing is more condemnable than selfishness. A man who thinks of himself alone is the most unlucky person of all.
~ Anand Neelakantan
He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive.
~ Angela Carter
It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.
~ Anton Chekhov
The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.
~ Ashley Montagu
Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.
~ Baltasar Gracian
In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.
~ Benjamin Franklin
More lightly do his sorrows press upon a man, when to a friend or fellow traveller he tells his griefs.
~ Callimachus
... Kindness, sweetest of the small notes in the world's ache, most modest & gentle of the elements entered man before history and became his daily connection, let no man tell you otherwise.
~ Carl Rakosi
There is only one man in the world and his name is All Men. There is only one woman in the world and her name is All Women. There is only one child in the world and the child's name is All Children.
~ Carl Sandburg
I wonder why it is the man who pleads for mercy never gives it.
~ Louis L'Amour
Women tend to take care of men a lot, but I like a guy who balances that out and takes care of me, too.
~ Lyndsy Fonseca
When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.
~ Marcus Aurelius
One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skin color.
~ Mark Twain
Let us be happy too when we see a happy man, because happiness is a candle light in this dark universe!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
In zoos, along with the animals, the humanity of man is also prisoned! No cage is humane!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The first step to be a good man is this: You must deeply feel the burden of the stones someone else carrying.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Try to see the world from the eyes of an old man! Old eyes are a good place to begin with for understanding the truths!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Watching snowing would be much greater if there were no homeless people! Man can never be fully happy and comfortable till all men become happy and comfortable!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Why do there have to be men like that, men who enjoy another man's dying?
~ Michael Shaara
Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more.
~ Michelangelo
Other men's pains are easily borne.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.
~ Mika