Quotes About Empathy

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

A beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die like angels—loved and wanted.

I always wondered what it must be like to lose a twin—if somehow Mary felt it like it was happening to her. If she felt physical pain.

They should make earplugs for people who are grieving, so we don't have to hear the stupid things people say, but I'd look like a dork in them." -Corinna

Whenever I see an ambulance, I like to think there is a baby being born, rather than a death.

I DON'T HOLD WITH CRUELTY TO CATS.

How terrible, " said Eragon, "to die alone, separate even from the one who is closest to you."

When you attempt suicide, the counselors try to talk you out of trying it again by asking you about other people, which is good prevention if you care about other people.

They suffered with his death and she - she suffered with their reaction to it.

You and I have a connection that nothing, not on heaven or earth, or even hell, could ever break. If you want to talk to me, talk to me. I'll hear you…

Some of us hover when we weep for the other who wasdying since the day they were born.

If you are distant and misanthropic, selfish or cruel, you will find yourself alone in life and death.

I know I should look away, let him grieve in private, but I cannot. The sweet girl that I knew only briefly is the key to this gentle beast who has captured my heart.

Nobody seems to understand that in such matters the tact and sympathy should come from the one who is about to die, not the poor bugger who has to take the news.

you can pass a football, you can gas, but you yourself cannot just pass~cam after lilly's mother informs her that lilly has passed

You need to keep hurting until you realise you never needed to hurt in the first place.

Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving me scarred and sore.

My belief that everyone is a person, no matter what they've done, and that taking a human life is wrong.

Forgiveness before one's death, isn't just about asking and receiving it, it's also about forgiving others.

if the goddes can forgive her, can't we?""I think there's a big difference between forgiving her and makin her into something she wasn't just because she's dead

I'm sorry, I didn't mean--""To speak of it?" asked the K'mir. Diane nodded. "You have to, just to bleed off the poison from the memory.

Someone dies, there oughta be something. It oughta shake the world! You're not supposed to walk away!

Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.

Kellyanne opened the car door and crawled into my bedroom. Her face was puffy and pale and fuzzed-over. She just came in and said: "Ashmol, Pobby and Dingan are maybe-dead." That's how she said it.