Quotes About Empathy

No one is ever alone.

The world is filled with humans, and as soon as one dies, another appears. What does it matter if I relieve one wretched soul of its misery?

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

True friends are always together in spirit.

She shook her head impatiently; the idea of being in competition with other unhappy people was distasteful to her. It was an argument that her friends sometimes used, very delicately of course—that other people had more reason for grief than she had. As if grief could be measured by its causes, and not by the victim's capacity for suffering!

We are more sociable and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

We should like those whom we love to receive all their happiness, or, if this were impossible, all their unhappiness from our hands.

A great mind is above insults, injustice, grief, and raillery, and would be invulnerable were it not open to compassion.

Two persons will not be friends long if they are not inclined to pardon each other's little failings.

The true spirit of conversation consists more in bringing out the cleverness of others than in showing a great deal of it yourself.

We ought not to make those people our enemies who might have become our friends, if we had only known them better.

Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.

We ought never to mock the wretched, for who can be sure of being always happy?

If we had no faults ourselves, we should not take such pleasure in observing those of others.

We like better to see those on whom we confer benefits, than those from whom we receive them.

The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.

We are all strong enough to endure the misfortunes of others.

We rarely think that people have good sense unless they agree with us.

The head is always the bubble of the heart.

We easily forgive in our friends those faults we do not perceive.

What makes the vanity of others unsupportable is that it wounds our own.

We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy.

To praise great actions is in some sense to share them.

When did he start to stroke and compassionate?