Quotes About Empathy

I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time.

I am glad my case is not serious! But these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing. John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him.

The truly alive soul is tremblingly alive to the feelings of humanity

She had once told him that as soon as you placed your hands upon a stranger, they begin to talk. Everybody found it so, she said: hairdressers, nurses, nuns. It was dangerously easy to give in: human defences dissovled at another person's touch.

The point of an animal was not for it to love you; it was that you could love it. In all it's otherness, your unbelonging to its kind, it could yet receive-boundlessly-your love.

If this strikes you as a trivial subject to write about, you're wrong. Really. Bollocks to the rest of you. I could've sat through live 3D news footage of some gruesome bloody war, watching starving women and children being machine gunned in the face by Terminator rebels, and I'd have just shrugged. So what. Stop crying. They're only bullets. Try having my throat. Try some genuine suffering, you pussies.

Lack of courage keeps us from understanding others' perspectives.

Taylor feels the Swifties are of a different and higher calibre. 'I just feel so proud that my fans are always nice to other fans,' she told the Digital Spy website. 'They don't say hateful things. They don't say they're going to set people on fire or anything. They're not sending death threats to other people.' The

blossom during and beyond her childhood. 'We were more sisters than friends,' Maack told the Reading Eagle. 'Taylor's family was my family.' Yet this bond was not enough to paper over the cracks of hurt that Taylor felt when kids bullied her. Lots of kids found her 'annoying' and 'uncool'. Among her offences to coolness was the fact that she was not

A life lived only for oneself - is a less lived life.

I remember my dad, who coached football, would buy some of his players football shoes when they couldn't afford it.

When people start talking of man's inhumanity to man it means they haven't actually walked far enough.

Don't pat me on the back because I don't care that you're black, then get angry on other occasions, because I don't care that your're black!

Let me say, with the risk of appearing ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by strong feelings of love. It is impossible to think of an authentic revolutionary without this quality.

One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.

Hay que endurecerse, pero sin perder la ternura jamás!

Hay que ser duro pero jamas perder la ternura. [It is necessary to be hard but never to lose the tenderness]

I admire a woman like T.R. "Tina" Threston. When nearly everyone else asks what a charity can do for them, she asks what she can do for a charity. That, my friends, is a rare woman indeed!

She'd liked Pearl. Pearl hadn't meant to Tazer Archie. Well, she meant to Tazer him, but how was she supposed to know that her then-boyfriend was going to drag Archie away, suspend him naked from meat hooks and try to hack him up with an ax? Hadn't everyone had a bad boyfriend at some point? Pearl had made some bonehead choices, but she had a good heart.

They looked at him now with a mixture of affection and anxiety. Archie felt bad for them. He always felt bad for people who knew what he had been through. It made them feel awkward. He knew it was up to him to make them comfortable, so they could work effectively for him, no distractions, no pity.

They were going to have a conversation, he realized. Archie didn't know a lot about women, but he had been married and he knew when a conversation was coming, and he knew when a woman wanted to have one, the best thing you could do was get it over with.

You think I'm going to let you burn in hell alone? Just don't shoot the janitor.

Derek cleared his throat. "Right. Sorry." He

There will be time to diet when people stopped killing one another.