Quotes About Empathy

Dans les petites villes, les gens sont toujours prêts à partager vos ennuis. Si vous n'en avez pas, ils se font une joie de vous en créer.

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

If only she would let me talk to her! I'm sure I could change her mind...That's what is needed, to change her mind. But how?

Quand on ne sait pas grand chose, on est toujours cruel pour ceux qui savent encore moins.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.

The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.

The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.

In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.

The only true voyage of discovery . . . would be not to visit strange lands, but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.

People are not always very tolerant of the tears which they themselves have provoked.

One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

In reality, every reader when he is reading, is the reader of his own self. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers to the reader to permit him to discern what, without the book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. The reader's recognition in his own self of what the book says is the proof of its truth.

Le seul véritable voyage, le seul bain de Jouvence, ce ne serait pas d'aller vers de nouveaux paysages, mais d'avoir d'autres yeux, de voir l'univers avec les yeux d'un autre, de cent autres, de voir les cent univers que chacun d'eux voit, que chacun d'eux est;

The so-called sensitivity of neurotics develops along with their egotism; they cannot bear for other people to flaunt the sufferings with which they are increasingly preoccupied themselves.

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

Whenever she saw in others an advantage, however trivial, which she herself lacked, she would persuade herself that it was no advantage at all, but a drawback, and would pity so as not to have to envy them.

With intelligent people, three-quarters of the things they suffer from come from their intelligence.

In short, my aunt demanded that whoever came to see her must at one and the same time approve of her way of life, commiserate with her in her sufferings, and assure her of ultimate recovery.

We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening.

The best vaccine against anger is to watch others in its throes.