Quotes About Empathy

Many people tell me that they don 't know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That's good.

I have always felt a little homeless. It's a strange thing.

I do, in a strange way, care deeply what people think.

In a strange way, you have to have a certain amount of distance from a thing in order to be able to write about it.

I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'

When you're improvising, you connect with people in a way you don't in normal life, strangely.

Throughout my life, I've seen that everybody has had something to teach me and, strangely, it's always something relevant to what I'm going through at that point.

I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is man's communication with his fellow man. I want to narrow the gap of strangeness and alienation.

Smile at a stranger. See what happens.

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.

What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!

Never judge a stranger by his clothes.

The power of affinity lies in its mystery: the way it stands outside everything logical; you step into a crowded room and see a stranger, and somehow you feel you know her better than you know the friends you came with.

It's really hard for me to be open and be completely honest with a stranger.

I've never met a stranger.

No one is ever really a stranger. We cling to the belief that we share nothing with certain people. It's rubbish. We have almost everything in common with everyone.

A colleague once nicknamed me - half mocking - the 'magical stranger' because I get people to tell me things.

Race prejudice has nothing to do with color. It has to do with being the stranger.

My dream was always to have an experience where an audience member would turn to another audience member, a stranger, and be like, 'What did we just go through?' And, like, kind of begin to talk.

For every hate-filled attempt to harm, there will be always the legion of those who do not hesitate to give their help and care to a stranger when it is needed.

We must make every effort to extend a hand to the stranger, and continue to fight to make sure we don't give up on our American values.

I think that's what 'Stranger Things' does, it opens you up - it has a real beating heart to it.

You can have your opinions, and you can share them with your friends, but why would you go online to tell a stranger something random about their appearance? I don't get that.

When I think about where most of Scripture points me, it is toward defending the poor, and the immigrant, and the stranger, and the prisoner, and the outcast, and those who are left behind by the way society works.