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Quotes About Empathy

Ignorance is ugly and is the result of a lack of education. Help change that by spreading knowledge, positivity, & love for your fellow man.
~ Eric Halvorsen
A low capacity for getting along with those near us often goes hand in hand with a high receptivity to the idea of the brotherhood of men.
~ Eric Hoffer
can't blame a man for being human when human is all he'll ever be!
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.
~ Erica Jong
I never go to a college reunion that I don't come away feeling sorry for all those paunchy, balding jocks trying to hang onto youth. I feel sorry for the men, too.
~ Erma Bombeck
Never be in a hurry to terminate a marriage. Remember, you may need this man/woman to finish a sentence.
~ Erma Bombeck
The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.
~ Ernest Hemingway
But he who truly loves books loves all books alike, and not only this, but it grieves him that all other men do not share with him this noble passion. Verily, this is the most unselfish of loves!
~ Eugene Field
I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me, because they assumed things about my mental capacity or my physical willingness based on the way I look.
~ Evangeline Lilly
Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a more tolerable world for everyone.
~ Eyvind Johnson
I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state?
~ Fay Weldon
I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables!
~ Fernando Pessoa
Come home to men's business and bosoms.
~ Francis Bacon
Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.
~ Francis Bacon
No man is born unto himself alone; Who lives unto himself, he lives to none.
~ Francis Quarles
There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.
~ Frank Moore Colby
Kindly words, sympathizing attentions, watchfulness against wounding men's sensitiveness-these cost very little, but they are priceless in their value.
~ Frederick William Robertson
Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
One could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being.
~ Gabriel Byrne
I think if we open ourselves to all different kinds of men and all groups, we find a lot more opportunities to love.
~ Gabrielle Union
There is pleasure And there is bliss. Forgo the first to possess the second. If you are happy At the expense of another man's happiness, You are forever bound.
~ Gautama Buddha