Quotes About Empathy

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

Sitting with her on Sunday evening — a wet Sunday evening — the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told…

I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.

That is the case with us all, papa. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

That is very true, replied Elizabeth, and I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

She expected from other people the same opinions and feeling as her own, and she judged their motives by the immediate effect of their actions on herself.

Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life. I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.

How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!

Nobody meant to be unkind, but nobody put themselves out of their way to secure her comfort.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge.

A man who had felt less, might.

No soy hombre de muchas palabras, Emma. Si te amara menos, sería capaz de hablar más de ello. Pero sabes como soy. De mí no escucharás más que verdades. Te he hecho reproches y te he reprendido y lo has soportado como ninguna otra mujer en toda Inglaterra lo hubiera hecho. Soporta todas las verdades que ahora te voy a decir, mi queridísima Emma, tan bien como soportaste aquellas

He admires as a lover, not as a connoisseur. To satisfy me, those characters must be united. I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter into all my feelings: the same books, the same music must charm us both.

Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it.

Where there is a wish to please, one ought to overlook, and one does overlook a great deal.

Indeed how can one care for those one has never seen?

You do not make allowance enough for difference of situation and temper.

no es justo publicar las faltas del pasado de una persona, ignorando si se ha corregido.

My feelings are not often shared, not often understood - Marianne Dashwood

I will not talk of my own happiness,' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?

for though a very few hours spent in the hard labor of incessant talking will dispatch more subjects that can really be in common between two rational creatures, yet for the lovers is different. Between them no subject is finished; no communication is ever made, till it has been made at least twenty times over.

no man can be a good judge of the comforts a woman feels in the society of one of her own sex […]

Her feelings were very acute, and too little understood to be properly attended to. Nobody meant to be unkind, but nobody put themselves out of their way to secure her comfort.