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Quotes About Empathy

My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you.
~ Kurt Cobain
She eyes me like a pisces.
~ Kurt Cobain
I'm on my time with everyone.
~ Kurt Cobain
I'm not well read, but when I do read, I read well. I don't have the time to translate what I understand in the form of conversation. I had exhausted most conversation at age 9. I only feel with grunts, screams and tones and with hand gestures and my body. I'm deaf in spirit.
~ Kurt Cobain
There's good in all of us and I think I simply love people too much, so much that it makes me feel too fucking sad.
~ Kurt Cobain
I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists, and racists in our audience. I know they're out there and it really bothers me.
~ Kurt Cobain
How wonderful it is, to be silent with someone.
~ Kurt Tucholsky
Das ist schön, mit jemanden schweigen zu können.
~ Kurt Tucholsky
Menschen haben immer Menschen gequält, heute sieht das nur anders aus.
~ Kurt Tucholsky
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Hello babies. Welcome to earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies—:"God damn it, you've got to be kind."
~ Kurt Vonnegut (Jr.)
There's a lot of love around you, but if you don't see it, it's not there.
~ Kwame Alexander
Look at the mirrors in your friends eyes. That's all anyone ever needs. Too see beauty and reflection in others. Those are real mirrors.
~ Kwame Alexander
If your brother pisses you off, tell him about. If he listens to you, he is your brother for life. Real profound. It is. Matthew said it. Who's Matthew? The Bible Matthew, yo? I doubt the Bible says "pissed off," Walt. I was paraphrasing. Just trying to elucidate the power of communication between brothers.
~ Kwame Alexander
I want them to know that banning a book is like banning a hug and THAT is a dismal storm no child should be left behind in
~ Kwame Alexander
Don't you see I need to be here so they can fix the damage that's been done to my heart? Who's gonna fix the damage that's been done to mine?
~ Kwame Alexander
I want them to know that banning a book is like banning a hug and THAT is a dismal storm no should be left behind in
~ Kwame Alexander
Center for Relational Recovery on a pleather
~ Kwame Alexander
Chambers if I am your heart imagine me inside beating, pumping, loving
~ Kwame Alexander
I am urging that we should learn about people in other places, take an interest in their civilizations, their arguments, their errors, their achievements, not because that will bring us to agreement, but because it will help us get used to one another.
~ Kwame Anthony Appiah
Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto. I am human, I think nothing human alien to me.
~ Kwame Anthony Appiah