Quotes About Empathy

For me, Will being gay or not is besides the point. 'Stranger Things' is a show about a bunch of kids who are outsiders and find each other because they have been bullied in some way or are different.

For those of us that can do it, do something nice for a stranger. Do something nice for a family member.

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.

How do you live with one person for 13 years and another for eight and find both as alien as strangers?

I once spent an entire night in a hotel in New York looking across the way into someone's apartment where nothing was happening but daily life, a phone call, television watching, staring into the fridge. Seeing how those strangers lived over that small distance and in absolute silence moved me deeply.

As Americans we are no strangers to hate-fueled rhetoric.

I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.

Strangers still leave me self-conscious.

I'm quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.

I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.

I think, especially in our business we meet a lot of people, and sometimes you spend so much time being nice to strangers, and so, you know, keeping a clear head and just being nice to each other. And that's all the advice I can give.

If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.

For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal for me.

Talk to strangers. They're never who you think they are at first.

What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.

I know my mother has always looked at strangers as friends.

Our best hope for the future is not to get people to think of all humanity as family - that's impossible. It lies, instead, in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don't empathize with distant strangers, their lives have the same value as the lives of those we love.

Romance is sort of an island right next to care. When you care about someone and you listen to them and you hear them and you can feel them and you know just what's right, and generally it's something that will be very unimpressive to a room of strangers.

Sharing bad news with strangers is most certainly a selfish act.

Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.

On airplanes, strangers confide in me the most deepest, darkest secrets. And I think they think I'll understand. And I generally do understand.

'Humans of New York' is basically somebody walking up to absolute strangers on the street every day and, within minutes, talking with them about very personal things. Some things they haven't even told their best friends or family members.

There are obstacles and challenges that my dark-skinned sisters face that I will never know. How they are perceived when they walk in a room of strangers is something I will never truly know.

When you're talking about a really horrible personal thing that happened to you... and it doesn't get laughs... I feel really exposed and like I've overshared with some strangers.