Quotes About Empathy

To be loved, dear, to be comprehended, is the greatest of all joys; I pray that you may taste it!

he began to weep on his own account. Observing this grief, the abbe dried his pupil's tears, bidding him observe that the good woman took her snuff most offensively, and was becoming so ugly and deaf and tedious that he ought to return thanks for her death.

Cada cual tiene su modo de amar; el mío, sin embargo, no hace mal a nadie; ¿por qué, entonces, la gente habrá de ocuparse de mí?

Egész Párizs odagy?lik hozzá, ahogy a cs?cselék lepi el a Grève teret, ha kivégzés készül. Azért mennek oda, hogy lássák, tudja-e leplezni fájdalmát ez az asszony, tud-e szépen meghalni. Nem rémes?

have perhaps observed how feeling can bridge over the distances created by society. If we are inferior to you in intellect, we can be your equals in devoted friendship. By the temperature — allow me the word — of our hearts I felt myself as near my patron as I was far below him in rank. In short, the soul has its clairvoyance; it has presentiments of suffering, grief, joy, antagonism, or hatred in others.

Perhaps it is human nature to spare no torment when the victim accepts any suffering out of genuine humility, weakness or indifference.

He felt in his heart a sort of remorse which bid him respect a creature that had done him no harm.

Someday you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

Pensons à lui, ma mère, répondit Eugénie, et n'en parlons pas. Vous souffrez; vous avant tout. Tout c'était lui.

don't come to comfort you; I only bring you my heart to beat in sympathy with yours, and help you to bear with life. I come to bid you weep, for only with tears can you purchase the joy of meeting him again.

We talked together through that silence in the language of thought. Nothing is more rapturous than these mute conversations.

A lover speaks of nothing to a woman but that which exalts her; while a husband, although he may be a loving one, can never refrain from giving advice which always has the appearance of reprimand.

Women like to perform prodigies, break rocks, and soften natures which seem of iron.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness

Whether she actually would have flown in to act as baby nurse or mailed me cotton balls and calamine lotion if she were alive isn't really the issue. It's the fact that I can't ask her for these things that makes me miss her all over again.

His own way to a sick man is what grass is to a sick dog.

But, after these days of nightmare, there was something reassuring in discovering that there were still people in the world sane enough, and with quiet enough minds, to be put out by the holes in a pair of worsted stockings.

it is never safe to classify the souls of one's neighbors; one is apt, in the long run, to be proved a fool. You should regard each meeting with a friend as a sitting he is unwittingly giving you for a portrait — a portrait that, probably, when you or he die, will still be unfinished.

it is never safe to classify the souls of one's neighbors; one is apt, in the long run, to be proved a fool. You should regard each meeting with a friend as a sitting he is unwillingly giving you for a portrait -- a portrait that, probably, when you or he die, will still be unfinished.

You can tell a lot about a person's character over the phone. Not everything, but a lot. It's not always what they say but what they don't say that's the most telling,

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is ablaze

It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

If you wish me to weep, you yourselfMust first feel grief.