Quotes About Empathy

Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.

Gentlemen, my father always detested me because I could not understand mathematics. I understand only love and liberty.

This is the shade of meaning: the door of a physician should never be closed; the door of a priest should always be open.

When the heart is dry the eye is dry.

A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed. Things could not go on in this manner.

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

Homo homini monstrum

Oh! if the good hearts had the fat purses, how much better everything would go!

He who does not weep does not see.

Books are cold but safe friends.

Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?

Ma bouche n'avait pas dit une chose que deja ton coeur avait repondu.

These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow.

To have lied is to have suffered.

Desgraciado quien no haya amado mas que cuerpos, formas y apariencias. La muerte le arrebatara todo. Procurad amar las almas y un dia las volvereis a encontrar.

I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.

The victory of humanity over man. Humanity had conquered the inhuman. And by what means? In what way? How had it overcome the giant of anger and hatred? What arms had it used? What engine of war? The cradle.

there is a point, moreover, at which the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confounded in a single word, Les Miserables; whose fault is it? And then, is it not when the fall is lowest that charity ought to be greatest?

She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.

I will weep with you over the children of kings, provided that you will weep with me over the children of the people

Look down and show some mercy if you can. Look down, look down, upon your fellow man.

As he spoke all tongues, he entered into all hearts.

In fact, he who has only beheld the misery of man has seen nothing; the misery of woman is what he must see; he who has seen only the misery of woman has seen nothing; he must see the misery of the child.