Quotes About Empathy

The poem and the drama is not the experience except as we identify ourselves with it, and know what it feels like to have it. What distinguishes literature is that it cannot be understood unless we understand what it is like to be human.

A las personas hay que aceptarlas con sus máscaras; es la única forma de quitárselas.

Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.

True friendship must be akin to romance, I think; only without all the anguish and anxiety.

If I have one pride in my calling, it is that I have never judged a patron wrongly - and I have never failed to recognize a patron upon meeting.

I never forgot, never, that it had been he who, with two words, turned my deadliest flaw to a treasure beyond price.

Is the world so cruel, then, that that is all that is required to move a man to risk his life? Kindness?

I wondered if, by the time we'd been together as long as Phèdre and Joscelin, I'd be able to predict her reactions. I wasn't sure I would. I wasn't sure I wanted to, either.

Ci sono persone che si sentono in imbarazzo di fronte al dolore altrui e temono di dire la cosa sbagliata; a costoro dico che non si sbaglia nell'offrire conforto, mai. Una parola gentile, un abbraccio consolatorio... queste cose sono sempre bene accette.

It is what I do. If you wish to thank me, do a kindness for someone in need.

The enemy of fear is love, for it is in loving others that we set aside our own personal fears, holding their safety and well-being as our highest regard.

A small kindness, a confluence of compassion, had saved his life. Was that strength, or a weakness?

The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart.

Non c'è roccia su cui l'anima mortale possa naufragare che non contenga qualche delicato viticcio di gentilezza umana che lotta per sopravvivere.

Talk is healing. It's the unexamined wound that festers.

My thanks, Master." He waved his hand. "It is what I do. If you wish to thank me, do a kindness for someone in need.

There are those who are awkward in the face of sorrow, fearing to say the wrong thing; to them, I say, there is no wrong in comfort, ever. A kind word, a consoling arm … these things are ever welcome.

It is my observation, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others. I like to think it might have been so.

How could anyone endure what we had known and still be capable of so much goodness?

É mais duro ver outro sofrer do que suportarmos nós o sofrimento.

I'd never thought before about how much of what animates us as human beings—or semi-human beings—depends on our feelings. Without them, we were dead inside.

I bid you to aid one another. Let the wealthy have charity for the poor. Let the strong have mercy on the weak. And I promise, if we are victorious, such a time shall never come again.

where battle prevails, women must grieve.

Mercy and compassion are all the grace left to us.