Quotes About Empathy

I lay in bed and thought how easy it was to hurt a person. It didn't have to be physical. All you had to do was take a good hard kick at something they cared about.

You tell me why's a man's blood is any better or any more precious than a dog's blood? It sure ain't to the dog.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.

Sometimes it seems to me that all the world, all life, everything, had taken up residence inside of me and was clamoring for me to be the spokesman. 

Her own limits were the limits of her horizon; but limited minds can recognize limitations only in others. And so she felt that her outlook was very wide indeed, and that where his conflicted with hers marked his limitations; and she dreamed of helping him to see as she saw, of widening his horizon until it was identified with hers.

Hers was that common insularity of mind that makes human creatures believe that their color, creed, and politics are best and right and that other human creatures scattered over the world are less fortunately placed than they.

What is not good enough for you is not good enough for other men, and there's no more to be said.

And then, in splendor and glory, came the great idea. He would write. He would be one of the eyes through which the world saw, one of the ears through which it heard, one of the hearts through which it felt.

I think that the important thing to consider here - Hubert Humphrey said that a society is measured by how he treats those in the dawn of life, those in the shadows of life, and those in the twilight of life. And it is true that Terri Schiavo lives among us in the shadows of life, but she is not brain dead. She feels pain.

It's a twin type of telepathy. My sister and I, we share the same DNA, so on paper, we're the same person. I knew she was pregnant, like, right away - it's so crazy - but I asked her, and she said yes.

My two little twin brothers have autism, so I grew up around it and misunderstood it for a long time.

Anybody who knows about having a premature baby, it's horrific. He was part of a twin, and I lost his sister.

I suppose being his twin made me understand Robin that much more easily.

Being a twin, and knowing if my twin was gone or lost - that's a part of me. There's no way I could be the same person knowing my brother had passed away.

I don't have a twin, but I do have a brother and sisters, and I do know that there is a special bond there that is - I'm going to say - closer. It's different. It's closer than having a best friend. It's easier to forgive them. I think it's also easier to get mad at them. You feel a little piece of yourself in them.

When one twin is in need or hurt, the other twin definitely knows it. It really helps us being a successful tag team.

I remember watching the Twin Towers collapse. Because it was another country and looked like a film, I just sort of thought, 'Oh.' I didn't think that much. Then three days later, it hit me. I was in a terrible state, and I was tearful for three or four days.

My twin brother is the same build as me, same strength as me. We've been through the same thing.

A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle.

When I was younger, before I was born, I lost my twin, so I think I've always had a fascination for telepathy or the way that twins act and react with each other.

This is going to sound crazy, but there was a period of time where on TLC they would show those surgeries - like a woman had a 90-pound tumor, or they separated these twins. And my sister and I - she lived in Ohio when I lived in California - would watch them together on the phone.

I had a player once whose wife had twins and one of them was in and out of hospital for a year. You just have to give people as much time as they need.

Even in a comedy, you have to make people feel. You have to put your hand inside their soul and twist out their heart.