Quotes About Empathy

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!

Only death dignifies our sufferings in the eyes of others.

But Hans Castorp said as they walked on: "You see, I didn't mind it at all, I got on with her quite well; I always do with such people; I understand instinctively how to go at them—don't you think so? I even think, on the whole, I get on better with sad people than with jolly ones—goodness knows why. Perhaps it's because I'm an orphan, and lost my parents early;

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

Man loves and honors man as long as he is not able to judge him, and desire is a product of lacking knowledge.

Car lorsque les yeux parlent, ils tutoient, lors même que les lèvres n'ont pas encore prononcé un vous.

Pues cuando los ojos hablan tutean, aunque los labios no hayan pronunciado todavía un .

I opanowa? go rodzaj rozczulenia, prosta, a nabo?na sympatia do w?asnego serca, do bij?cego ludzkiego serca...

Ils se sont groupés, car une chose comme un pneumothorax rapproche naturellement les hommes, et ils s'appellent l'Association des demi-poumons [...].

Ng??i ch? yêu quý và tôn th? ng??i khác ch?ng nào h? còn chÆ°a có kh? n?ng phán xét v? nhau, và khao khát tÆ°Æ¡ng tÆ° là k?t qu? c?a sá»± hi?u bi?t không ??y ??.

Bo gdy mówiÄ… tylko oczy, rozmowa toczy siÄ™ przecie? na ty...

Pues el hombre ama y respeta al hombre mientras no se halle en condiciones de juzgarlo, y el deseo vehemente es el resultado de un conocimiento imperfecto.

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

Has he really insulted me? But an insult must be of intent, otherwise it can be none.

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall grant death no dominion over his thoughts.

I get an odd, intimate, and amusing sensation from having him sit on my foot and warm it with the blood-heat of his body. A pervasive feeling of sympathy and good cheer fills me, as almost invariably when in his company and looking at things from his angle.

Los hombres no saben por qué les satisfacen las obras de arte. No son verdaderamente entendidos, y creen descubrir innumerables excelencias en una obra, para justificar su admiración por ella, cuando el fundamento íntimo de su aplauso es un sentimiento imponderable que se llama simpatía.

Demek ki insanlar?n bizim ac?m?za sayg? duymas?n? ölüm saÄŸl?yor, en hazin ac?lar bile ölümle sayg?nl?k kazan?yordu.

You can make a lot of mistakes, as long as you try to tune in to how your cat understands that you love her. It does require paying attention.

Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.

It is not possible to be intimate with more than very few, because there are only very few in the world with whom we have practically everything in common.

In the end, it's the reality of personal realtionships that save everything.

The man who is able to hate strongly and with a quiet conscience is one who is complacently blind to all unworthiness in himself and serenely capable of seeing all his own wrongs in someone else.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise, we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them