Quotes About Empathy

She perchance underwent an agony from every footstep of those that thronged to see her, as if her heart had been flung into the street for them all to spurn and trample upon.

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and habilities he must go out of himself to appreciate. The accidents in my life have often afforded me this advantage, but never with more fulness and variety than during my continuance in office.

He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of a human heart.

Es de gran importancia para la salud moral e intelectual de un hombre tener por compañeros otros hombres distintos a él, que no se interesen por sus ocupaciones, y que para conocer sus capacidades y saber en qué círculos se mueven le sea preciso salirse de sí mismo.

Es war der letzte Ausdruck der Kleinmütigkeit einer gebrochenen Seele. Ihm fehlte die Energie, nach dem besseren Schicksal zu greifen, das in seiner Reichweite schien. Er wiederholte das Wort. Allein Hester! Du wirst nicht allein gehen! flüsterte sie leise zur Antwort. Damit war alles gesagt.

The secret is, said Phoebe, smiling, that I have learned how to talk with hens and chickens.

She shuddered to believe, yet could not help believing, that it gave her a sympathetic knowledge of the hidden sin in other hearts.

It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and a quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.

Lost as my own soul is, I would still do what I may die other human souls!

But then the elf-child sighed, and gave up her sport; because it grieved her to have done harm to a little being that was as wild as the sea-breeze, or as wild as Pearl herself.

that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.

She wanted--what some people want throughout life--a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanise and make her capable of sympathy.

El impulso universal convierte en un único y vasto corazón la suma de muchos corazones.

the boy's tender and confiding simplicity discerned what other people could not see; and thus the love, which was meant for all, became his peculiar portion.

He deemed it essential, it would seem, to know the man, before attempting to do him good.

It would break her dear little heart; and I'd rather break my own!

She seeks to place herself above the sympathies of our common nature, which envelopes all human souls. See if that nature do not assert its claim over her in some mode that shall bring her level with the lowest!

The most powerful minds are not always the best acquainted with their own feelings.

The only unforgivable sin is to look into the human heart without compassion.

All I want is for someone to understand me before I die. With death staring me in the face, I finally understand the reason novelists write books: before they die they want somebody, somewhere, to understand them.

She was willing to put herself out for others, but when it was just for her, it hardly mattered.

But I can tell you this: if you'd been the one in this fix, I'd have done the same for you.

He didn't want to rape her; he just wanted her to be nice to him.

What would love do now?