Quotes About Empathy

Covid time was not a fun time, I'll say that much. There was probably a week and a half there that was pretty miserable. And obviously I wouldn't want anyone to have to go through that.

Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.

I have empathy; I am humane. I understand human misery.

I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it's not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery.

I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.

I think of myself as quite a confused kind of person, because I think there's so many great things about the world, but there are so many awful things too. I feel very guilty a lot of the time about enjoying my life so much when there are people living in such misery.

I would say that it's wrong to milk someone's misery.

There's enough misery in the world today without going out of the way to create more.

People enjoy our misery so much, but honestly on those days, the days that you know that you're the one getting it, it's actually not a fun day for the person that's there. Everybody else is cool, the other three guys.

Misery loves company. There's a lot to that.

For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.

Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.

It is so rubbish when comics belittle their children in the misguided belief that it makes them look cool.

I'm not like a social butterfly or anything, but I just miss seeing even my friends.

As much as it hurts, I would rather miss someone than hit someone.

I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing him back to life and getting me to sort of understand more about him and what made him the father, the husband and the man that he was, and how that made me the man, husband and father that I am.

When I arrived in France, I cried every day. Not because I was in France - I could have been anywhere - but because I was so far, far away from my parents. I missed them so much.

What a lot of the world missed was just how caring New York became post-9/11.

We have grown a lot as a couple. 'Nach Baliye' has made us understand each other in a way that now there is nothing missing in our relationship. We know each other fully.

You might get some serial killers who are born with a chip missing, but for the most part I don't think anyone is born bad.

Whatever's missing in your relationship, including a marriage, is what you're not bringing to it.

I have learned that if I only see and deeply appreciate one side of an argument, it means I am probably missing something important.