Quotes About Empathy

Being a comfort is itself pretty comforting.

Ulimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other.

Love is so painful, how could you wish it on anybody?

I am tired of not feeling. I am tired of not connecting.

This is how it feels to hold a pencil in her hand. This is how it feels to fill her lungs with air. This is how it feels to press her back against the chair. This is how it feels to touch her ear. This is what the world sounds like to her. This is what she hears every day.

Not getting what you want can make you curel.

It's not like a puzzle piece where there's an instant fit. With relationships, you have to shape the pieces on each end before they go perfectly together.

I tried to put myself in his place, and realized we looked exactly like what we were: a family. These strangely tied together individuals trying desperately to keep both ourselves and one another happy. Succeeding, and failing, and succeeding.

And how devastating would it be to confide in someone and have the confidence disappear?

This is the hard part about having friends that I feel no attachment to-I don't give them any benefit of the doubt. And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt.

If you live with someone all your life, you can tell when you are annoying them. Their face just shuts down. Their words sound almost mechanical, because they are reining in all the other emotions.

The way she includes me, the way she takes this total stranger and makes her feel a part of this world, makes me care about her even more. It's one thing to be love-worthy when you are interacting with your boyfriend; it's another when you act the same way with a girl you don't know -A

We choose how much of the world we want to let into our lives. Both the beauty of it and the horror of it. There has to be a point of insulation -- but some of us insulate real close right down to our very selves and others insulate wider, let more of the world in.

He can barely stand it when he wastes his own time; for someone else to waste it is unconscionable.

It is hard to stop seeing your son as a son and to start seeing him as a human being.

It is hard to stop seeing your son as a son and to start seeing him as a human being. It is hard to stop seeing your parents as parents and to start seeing them as human beings. It's a two-sided transition, and very few people manage it gracefully.

It's a terrible thing to not feel missed.

Not getting what you want can make you cruel.

Falling in love with someone doesn't mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel -A

But this is the real thing, the hug that let's you feel held.

If anything goes wrong at home, you can't tell anyone outside of home. Pity is worse than pain, embarrassment is worse than help. If people treat you like shit, you still have to stay loyal to them. You still have to give them the benefit of the doubt that maybe you are, in fact, shit and deserve to be treated the way they treat you.

Saving others is always more important than saving yourself. It has to be, or none of us would do any good.

If you stare at the center of the universe there's a coldness there. A blankness. Ultimately the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other

I notice you. Even when no one else does, I do. I will.