Quotes About Empathy

Hodor hodor hodor hodor," shouted Hodor, eyes wide.

soothe the wrath and tame the fury, teach us all a kinder way

To lead men you must know them.

Tyrion turned to Sansa. "My lady, I am sorry for your losses. Truly, the gods are cruel." Sansa could not think of a word to say to him. How could he be sorry for her losses? Was he mocking her? It wasn't the gods who'd been cruel, it was Joffrey.

You're asking a lame man to teach a cripple how to dance.

Es un pecado que una persona esté tan gorda cuando la mitad del reino se muere de hambre.

Dany had no wish to reduce King's Landing to a blackened ruin full of unquiet ghosts. She had supped enough on tears. I want to make my kingdom beautiful, to fill it with fat men and pretty maids and laughing children. I want my people to smile when they see me ride by, the way Viserys said they smiled for my father.

If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look him in the face and hear his last words,

And the vilest of men and the wickedest of women likewise may do good from time to time, for love and compassion and pity may be found in even the blackest of hearts.

We all live our lives, but a reader lives a hundred other lives.

If you desire to help thy friend, do so in a way that will not bring thy friend's burdens upon thyself.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

I am convinced that much more emphasis should be placed on history. The purpose of history is to learn how human beings react when exposed to the danger of wounds or death...

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it.

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humour excites in those who lack it.

I'm beginning to believe that there are angels disguised as men who pass themselves off as such and who inhabit the earth for a while to console and lift up with them toward heaven the poor, exhausted and saddened souls who were ready to perish here below.

Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in a way that they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way.