Quotes About Empathy

If the experiences in my childhood have helped me become strong, then I can articulate those experiences and perhaps tell people out there that have gone through the same thing that they're not alone.

Coming from a very inarticulate family made me try to speak for those who can't express themselves and created a need for articulation at its most ceremonial - poetry.

People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?

I have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that's ok.

It's not about me. It's about not having to be ashamed.

I have made mistakes, but I feel that the people who have done things to me - they should be ashamed.

I was ashamed. My son is a drug addict. What does this mean about me?

We all have things we're ashamed of.

I always thought I had a difficult childhood 'til I saw the film 'Angela's Ashes'.

Can you suppose that the incidents of your married life are without interest for me? I muse at times over all that you have said to me. Often when, at the Opera, I seem absorbed in watching the pirouetting dancers, I am saying to myself, "It is half-past nine, perhaps she is in bed. What is she about? Is she happy? Is she alone with her independence? or has her independence gone the way of other dead and castoff independences?

N'est-il pas dans la noble destinée de la femme d'être plus touchée des pompes de la misère que des splendeurs de la fortune ?

On the morrow of my wedding we shall be parted for a long time; but, Daniel, you are of stuff to understand me. Friendship can subsist in the absence of the friend.

Les trois femmes, saisies de pitié, pleuraient: les larmes sont aussi contagieuses que peut l'être le rire.

Dragostea realizeaz? un progres enorm la o femeie în clipa când ea î?i închipuie c? a procedat prea pu?in generos sau c? a rânit un suflet delicat.

Úgy látszik, az emberi természetben gyökerezik, hogy mindent elszenvedtetünk azzal, aki kész mindent elszenvedni igazi alázatosságból, gyengeségb?l vagy közönyb?l. Avagy nem szeretjük-e mindnyájan kipróbálni er?nket valakinek vagy valaminek a kárára?

Physical pain pales beside moral suffering, but arouses more pity since it can be seen.

Ba?kalar?n?n mutlulu?u art?k mutlu olamayacak olanlar?n tesellisidir.

Some human beings obtain through love the power of transferring their self — their I — to the being of another; and when death takes that other, no life of their own is possible for them.

The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings. How well I felt this difference when I read your kind, tender letter! To see you thus living in three hearts roused my envy. Yes, you are happy; you have had wisdom to obey the laws of social life, whilst I stand outside, an alien.

Existe esa clase de goces que solamente pueden saborearse entre dos, de poeta a poeta, de corazón a corazón.

And, then, my daughter, my daughter! whose nurse I am, whose companion I must be; so that I can work but a few hours snatched from sleep. Ah, young man! none but the wretched can judge the wretched! Sometimes I think I used to be too stern to misery.

Quand tu auras envie de critiquer quelqu'un, songe que tout le monde n'a pas joui des mêmes avantages que toi.

Las angustias de los infortunados no son menos dignas de atención que las crisis que revolucionan la vida de los poderosos y de los privilegiados de la tierra. Y además, ¿acaso no hay tanto dolor en unos como en otros?

So compose yourself; do not exaggerate your misfortune. A priest whose hair has grown white in the exercise of his functions is not a boy; you will be understood by him to whom every passion has been confided for nearly fifty years now, and who weighs in his hands the ponderous heart of kings and princes. If he is stern under his stole, in the presence of your flowers he will be as tender as they are, and as indulgent as his Divine Master.