Quotes About Empathy

There is another person on the other end of the chatscreen. They're our friends, our brothers and sisters, our sons and daughters. Let's take a stand to reject hate and harassment. And let's redouble our efforts to be kind and respectful to one another. And let's remind the world what the gaming community is really all about.

Our babies know nothing about hate or racism. But soon they begin to learn - and only from us.

I would love to do a chick flick sometime soon, a film with strong female characters - when I say strong, I don't mean that they are changing the world, but just be real women.

Even at my most depressed and low-functioning, as soon as you put another person in the room with me, I would perk up and be happy to see them.

I don't like, and I've never been very good at, close-up shots. As soon as you have the camera right there in front of you, it feels like you're in a different reality from the person you are acting with; you lose any real connection with them.

Children are wonderful, but they are not the center of the universe. The sooner their parents make them understand that, the better off we all will be.

Why don't people take the trouble to let you know that they are alive? It is so much more important. The whole system is wrong. No sooner do I die, than all the flowers I have ever longed for in life pour in.

You can't force people to feel in a certain way, and the sooner you understand that,the better. I feel everything has its way of working.

If you're playing a negative character, sooner or later it rubs off on you. Some people don't mind living in that state, but I don't want to be there anymore. I don't want to live in a state of depression.

I sing because it soothes me, and I write because I want to let others know that they're not alone with their problems.

It's human nature to want to help and soothe and save with your love, but it's also arrogant.

When I was younger, I definitely did face anti-ginger prejudice. As a child, all teasing hurts, whether it's because you're fat or a different race or have red hair. I had enough comments from a couple of people to make it a sore point.

You can't be a sore loser or a sore fan.

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.

Despair is despair, sorrow is sorrow, death is death. It's not about who is experiencing it; it's about building a bridge of empathy across these experiences.

The criminal law is not meant to respond to every sorrow and grief.

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.

However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it.

Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.

I think it's okay to talk about grief and sorrow. Especially for women, when you lose a child or have a miscarriage, it's good to talk about it, as a lot of people don't want you to speak about those things. It makes people sad, but sometimes you've got to.

Twitter was an alternative community for me. A different kind of community. I knew I was making people angry. But it didn't matter, they weren't my community. But the longer I was on Twitter and the more I came to know these people, to like and respect them, the more I could see the empathy and grief and sorrow they were expressing.