Quotes About Empathy

Talking about your feeling with someone who is willing to listen can be enormously consoling, especially if that person has experienced a death similar to the one you are grieving.

I feel eternal pain for those who were killed by Hitler, but I feel no less pain for those killed on Stalin's orders. I suffer for everyone who was tortured, shot, or starved to death.

Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.

Funny how gentle people get with you once you're dead.

We have rejected such spectacles as the Coliseum. How then, when we do not even look on killing lest we should contract guilt and pollution, can we put people to death?

Any woman's death diminishes me.

I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.

You'll not be in heaven if you're not leaning on the arm of someone you have helped.

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

Do not ask the definition of a friend. He/She is that one without whose company death and dying set in earlier and living is made more pleasurable.

We do not lose our friends when they die, we only lose sight of them.

At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness, and their death.

Every civilian's death diminishes us, collectively.

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.

It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.

Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

Only the opium eater truly understands the pain of death.

You can care very much about someone without being capable of becoming their primary caregiver in the event of their parents' untimely death.

There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don't hear them whinging.

There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it.

I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.

I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.

The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he's dying don't give him pity for others.