Quotes About Empathy

I was meaning to be kind to you this evening, but you make it very difficult.

Anyway, Sophie's experience told her that tantrums are seldom about the thing they appear to be about.

I may be clever, she thought, quite sadly, but I'm not in the least kind or sympathetic.

I put my arms round her. For just a mere, single instant I had a real, heavy body in my arms and a moist face against my cheek, with a real, difficult personality to go with them.

You can't blame that genie for hating everyone," she said. "Think how you felt shut in that dungeon.

Is that all you can do in the face of tragedy?" Howl asked. "Make toast!

In fact, Cat was fairly sure Tonino was feeling just the way Cat had felt himself when he first came to Chrestomanci Castle, and Cat could not get over the annoyance of having someone have feelings that were his.

Now there, Charles,' said Chrestomanci, 'you have an excellent example quite apart from rights and wrongs, of why it is such a bad idea to do things to people. Everyone is now sorry for Simon. Which is not what you want at all, is it?

The sensory misers will inherit the earth, but first they will make it not worth living on. When you consider something like death, after which we may well go out like a candle flame, then it probably won't matter if we try too hard, are awkward sometimes, care for one another too deeply, are excessively curious about nature, are too open to experience, enjoy a nonstop expense of the senses in an effort to know life intimately and lovingly.

Suffering took hold of me like a magic spell abolishing all differences between friends and strangers.

Antonina felt convinced that people needed to connect more with their animal nature, but also that animals long for human company, reach out for human attention.

So often loneliness comes from being out of touch with parts of oneself. We go searching for those parts in other people, but there's a difference between feeling separate from others and separate from oneself.

It's not enough to do research from a distance. It's by living beside animals that you learn their behavior and psychology.

I'd suffered many losses in recent years after my father mother uncle aunt and cousin had all passed away. In her final years my mother often lamented that there was no one alive who had known her as a girl and I was starting to understand how spooked she'd felt. I wasn't sure I could take any more abandonments. One succumbs so easily to mind spasms, worry spasms. [p. 95]

She's so sensitive, she's almost able to read their minds. . .. She becomes them. . .. She has a precise and very special gift, a way of observing and understanding animals that's rare, a sixth sense. . .. It's been this way since she was little. In

If any creature is in danger, you save it, human or animal.

It's not enough to do research from a distance. It's by living beside animals that you learn their behavior and psychology. On Jan's daily

All our senses feed the brain, and if it diets mainly on cruelty and suffering, how can it remain healthy?

It's not enough to do research from a distance. It's by living beside animals that you learn their behavior and psychology. On

What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's.... That somebody else's tragedy is not the same as your own.

It's just that I've learned that somebody's appearance doesn't always match what's going on inside him. You can't look at a guy's face and see his demons. - Travis from The Good Father

You and me, I said,we both got the same kind of hurt inside us. She nodded, and suddenly, just like that, I knew I could trust her with my life.

Feelings are never right or wrong," she said after a moment. "They just are.

If you have a friend, a good friend, a woman you love, and you learn she's done something abominable, do you stop loving her?