Quotes About Empathy

I love women. I get along with women more than men, and I have more women friends.

It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.

To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.

There is much coldness among men because we do not dare to be as cordial as we really are.

It seems a strange fact that it is almost more important for us to be happy ourselves than to try to make other people happy. By being happy we confer untold benefits upon our fellow men.

I think everybody has the ability to fall in love with a man or with a woman or a white person or a black person or a Jewish person or a Protestant person or whatever.

I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love.

We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.

It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing

To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.

My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.

It is not the man speaking through the woman, it is the woman speaking through the man.

I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who's half a man, Or the man who's half a boy.

And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.

The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.

The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.

When a man says he sees nothing in a book, he very often means that he does not see himself in it: which, if it is not a comedy or a satire, is likely enough.

The man who wishes to bend me with his tale of woe must shed true tears - not tears that have been got ready overnight.

I think that women definitely have a special bond as friends that is hard to describe to men, and we don't often see that portrayed narratively.

The 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth.

Men simply don't understand how women are. They think there's some other kind.

The best cure for a hangover is something one straight man can't do for another straight man.

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.

He that steals the old man's supper does him no wrong.