Quotes About Empathy

He knew exactly what it was like to lose a child. And that fact wouldn't matter in the least in this circumstance. There could be no commiseration among such people despite the seeming commonality of loss, because it was actually each parent's totally unique hell.

They made you hate everyone, even the ones who were like you. That is what they do, so the prisoners will not rise up against them.

The narcissist could not feel empathy toward others. Which meant that the lives of others held no value to a narcissist. Killing could even be like a hit of fentanyl: instant euphoria from the domination and destruction of another. That was why virtually every serial murderer was also a narcissist.

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

I was always unfailingly polite to Ladon-Tosh. I didn't care if he never looked at me or spoke to me. I just wanted him to know that he had a friend in me.

My God, the whole world is collapsing. Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

You know people who read are a lot more tolerant and open-minded than those who don't." "Great

Decker looked behind him. 'That's nice.' 'What?' said Mars, looking too. 'Where the NAACP office was they built a public library. You know people who read are a lot more tolerant and open-minded than those who don't.' 'Great, so let's get everybody in the world a library card.

And it was a good thing. Because despite all the unsettling things that his mind had been doing while he was here, the ability to be hugged or have your hand clenched by another without flinching, that simple act, which just about everyone else took for granted, had brought Decker a bit closer to the person he had once been. Before he had died on a football field and woken up as someone else entirely.

However, Pine knew that narcissism was probably one of the most dangerous traits someone could possess for one critical reason: The narcissist could not feel empathy toward others. Which meant that the lives of others held no value to a narcissist. Killing could even be like a hit of fentanyl: instant euphoria from the domination and destruction of another.

Why can´t people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

There should never be enough 'going on' that we forget about the needs of others. That, essentially, is the essence of goodness.

Shots around the knee region, however, reduced the toughest men to screaming babies. Rogers

People are people," said Blum. "No matter where they are.

Whatever was hurting the lady, he simply didn't have the tools to help her. Apparently, a deep friendship didn't cut it with matters of a wounded soul.

That's good to hear, Billy. Kids have enough shit to deal with without somebody who is supposed to love them beating the crap out of them.

Dostoyevsky wrote that 'while nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer, nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

when people didn't treat you like you were human, there was no possibility of trust or engagement.

Who knows what beats deeply within the hearts of people?

Although America loved its tough guys, they weren't ready to vote for leaders who exhibited no compassion for the downtrodden and miserable, for on any given day they might constitute a majority.

You know people who read are a lot more tolerant and open-minded than those who don't.

You can't live someone else's life for them. Hell, it's hard enough living your own.

ignorance and intolerance to be like commas, because you often found them in pairs, and almost never did you find one, ignorance, without its evil twin, intolerance.

You can't live your life trying to make people understand something they don't want to understand.