Quotes About Empathy

I've been talking to people, and I've gone to hospitals, talked to survivors, to doctors, to caregivers. I just learned that there's really no one way for somebody to experience dealing with cancer.

That's the wonderful thing about drama and writing and fiction: it's this wonderful shared experience that we all have. We can see into each other's lives.

As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.

We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

I'm not one aspect of the human experience - none of us is.

Firing people is one of the worst parts of running a company. Actually in my own experience, I think it is the worst.

You have to experience grace to be one who knows how to give it.

No matter how enormous a novel may become, the physical act of reading determines that there's no way it can become a communal experience. To read is intimate. It's almost masturbatory.

In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone "come out" to you is the "pretending to be surprised" part.

But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone.

I always want readers to lose themselves completely in a story and feel something, whatever the book invites them to feel. That experience is the best takeaway any book can offer.

At some point just about all of us experience loneliness. In a sense, it is what it means to be a sentient animal, to have an experience of separation from others.

I think vulnerable is something you should always be. [It] makes you open to each experience. I try not to see vulnerability as a negative.

When I feel very loved, when I nurture and support people, my experience is deepened. I feel connected to a larger purpose and meaning.

I like not knowing too much about somebody I'm photographing, because the process also becomes an experience for me to learn about .

It's a disservice, really, when we put celebrated people on a pedestal and don't allow them to be human. It's a very lonely experience for the individual. It's not a sustainable way to live.

She had always known that all lives are in common, rejoicing in her kinship to the fish in the tanks of her laboratories, seeking the experience of existences outside the human boundary.

If and when you do decide to share your experience with your husband, it should be because you feel ready to do so, not for any other reason.

Everyone's entitled to their own experience.

I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.

I want to go and have a real experience and it's just lovely to sit and watch a movie and just be really transported by a story and care about the characters. That's always what I'm looking for.

It has been my experience that the people I judge most harshly are the ones in whom I recognize some part of myself.

What I write is emotionally honest and truthful as the human experience can be, to make people feel less alone, or at least that's the hope.