Quotes About Empathy

He knew that her body was his to engage in all the acrobatics he had learned in the books he kept hidden in a corner of his library, but with Clara even the most abominable contortions were like the thrashings of a newborn; it was impossible to spice them up with the salt of evil or the pepper of submission.

Casi todas las heridas sanan con cariño, Irina. Tienes que amarte a ti y amarme a mí.

So much hatred, so much cruelty . . . I don't understand,' said Victor. His mouth was dry and the ords stuck in his throat. 'We can all turn into savages if we're given a rifle and an order,' said another prisoner who had come over to them.

los humanos somos criaturas gregarias, que no estamos programados para la soledad, sino para dar y recibir.

Se encerraba en su habitación a escuchar sus sinfonías predilectas y deleitarse en su propia tristeza

Pregúntate qué sientes y qué te niegas a sentir.

Se debe tener mucho cuidado con los nombres de las personas y los seres vivos, porque al pronunciarlos se toca su corazón y entramos dentro de su fuerza vital

We always think things like that only happen elsewhere, said Miguel, until they happen to us too.

How would I run with my bad leg? And what would become of the people who need my care? Besides, it doesn't mean anything for me to be free and everyone else slaves, the healer answered. Tete hadn't thought of that, and it kept buzzing around her brain like a bottlefly. She talked about it with her godmother many times, but she was never able to accept the idea that her freedom was irreparably bound to that of the other slaves.

The author Eduardo Galeano said that "in the end, women's fear of men's violence is a reflection of men's fear of women without fear.

el amor nos vuelve buenos. No importa a quién amemos, tampoco importa ser correspondidos o si la relación es duradera. Basta la experiencia de amar, eso nos transforma.

nadie le importan los problemas ajenos y que los dolores callados acaban por diluirse.

No creas que eres alguien especial o mejor que los otros, acuérdate de que al clavo más prominente le cae el martillazo».

Al necesitado no se le pregunta quién es ni de dónde viene, Richard. Todos somos iguales en la desgracia»

I stroke them, and they always like that, because old people don't have anyone who touches them, and I get them hooked on a TV series, because nobody wants to die before the final episode. Some of them find comfort in prayer, but there are lots of atheists here, and they don't pray. What's most important is not to leave them on their own.

Piensa que los demás tienen más miedo que tú.

Em toda uma vida de convivência com a miséria e a dor, não se lhe tinha endurecido a alma, mas, pelo contrário, era cada vez mais vulnerável à piedade.

el dolor es un camino solitario.

El espectro de la pobreza, como el de la soledad, rondaba siempre a los viejos.

Souls in pain know no borders.

At the time I had never lived with a woman, so I could hardly miss something I had not grown accustomed to

shared pain is more bearable.

Aprendió a masticar sus penas sola y con dignidad, convencida de que a nadie le importan los problemas ajenos y que los dolores callados acaban por diluirse. Había

con la idea tallada a cincel en su mente de que ayudar al perseguido es un deber moral ineludible.