Quotes About Empathy

No one'll break your heart faster or into more pieces than a Sherpa will.

As a writer, Bibi, you could be a doctor of the soul.

The only monsters were people.

Hearts and minds heal with time, which is a grace of the human condition

It was mind that mattered, mind that cared, mind that loved, the best works of the mind that changed this hard world for the better

The world's crawling with people who don't respect anyone or anything, but we're supposed to respect them, have compassion for the killers because they've been so poorly treated by life.

Watching television news of freeway wrecks, apartment-building fires, and heinous murders, one sat numb and unaffected. Music that had once stirred the heart, art that had once touched the soul, now had no effect. Some people overcame this loss of sensitivity in a year or two, others in five years or ten, but others – never. The

THE WORLD IS FULL of broken people. Splints, casts, miracle drugs, and time can't mend fractured hearts, wounded minds, torn spirits.

the animals on Jacob's Ladder are likely to be sensitive

Intellect, courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy—each of those qualities was as important to the human species as all the others

the only companion with which he felt comfortable was sorrow.

He makes eye contact with Katie for a moment, and then rests his chin

When you acted on principle tempered by compassion, there was sooner or later always someone with a saw.

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

Some say that as many as 10 percent of human beings are sociopaths.

However, madness is a different thing from sociopathy, and the potential lies in every heart.

but that tenderness is a vain form of pity

even as foolish as Walsh seems, she is moved by a vulnerability that underlies his pomposity.

On Evil: There's too much darkness in some people, corruption that could never be cleaned out in five lifetimes of rehabilitation. Evil is real, it walks the earth. Sometimes the devil works by persuasion. Sometimes he just sets loose these sociopaths who don't have a gene for empathy or one for compassion.

is not an active tormentor but a passive observer in the home, her child has a third option. He can choose to grant her mercy without pardon, and find compassion for her in recognition that her stunted emotional development denies her the fullest enjoyment of life.

You're a scary woman, the way you know a man's mind.

books were a way to lead another life, a way to be someone else entirely, to be anyone at all.

People are books of a kind, each one a story. Sometimes, with no more than a glance or a gesture or a poignant word, they turn a page for you and reveal a deeper truth about themselves than you've seen before.

She wondered if she might be alone in this disquiet or whether these days other people experienced it as well, and she suspected that all of them knew the feeling whether they would admit it or not.