Quotes About Empathy

You can't just carry everyone else's hopes and fears around in your backpack and expect to stand up straight.

Whether you're gay or straight, with a physical disability, your skin's a different color, it's absurd in this age to not be aware and be concerned of the inequity in rights.

I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

The only people I don't reach on a very personal level are straight white men. They don't really need another entertainer dedicated for them exclusively, so they're fine.

I couldn't care less if someone is gay or straight.

As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.

The bullied straight kid goes home to a shoulder to cry on and support and can talk freely about his experience at school and why he's being bullied. I couldn't go home and open up to my parents.

I feel sorry for straight people.

You kinda say, 'Well, straight people don't have to come out.' I understand now that's not necessarily the right way to look at it.

The world I live in is not all white people, not all straight people, and it's not all people who have their acts together, either.

My music is straightforward because I want to give people me and let them know they're not alone in going through the things that they go through.

In a very straightforward way, I am a terrible reporter. I'm not someone who can go into a story and not get involved.

I am a very sensitive person, especially when it comes to heart-to-heart conversations. I am straightforward and I expect the same from people.

It sounds strange to say, but someone's bad luck is sometimes the happiness of the other.

People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.

What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.

The more we can be in a relationship with those who might seem strange to us, the more we can feel like we're neighbors and all members of the human family.

I'm a fan myself, so when a fan does something that might be strange, I understand it.

I was thinking about what it was like for my parents to have a strange kid with a hobby or a pursuit that maybe they weren't that familiar with. It must have been a strange experience - nerve-wracking, in some ways.

It's strange: I love pop music, and I really can enjoy it, but I didn't feel like the characters within pop music - like when Madonna sings 'Crazy For You', for instance, I don't feel like I would ever be the character she takes on in that song. I would never feel... I don't have that confidence in me.

I think there is pressure on people to turn every negative into a positive, but we should be allowed to say, 'I went through something really strange and awful and it has altered me forever.'

Being a shy person, I always felt strange outside with my camera.

I don't always know how to communicate. I think I get a bit unfiltered and a bit strange to people.

I'm not really a strange person or anything, so if there's music I like, usually there's other people who like it too.