Quotes About Empathy

You say 'cure.' I hear 'you're not human enough.

I do not mind when you tell me what you want and put that first instead of last.

Try to be nice. And if you can't be nice, then shut the hell up and go stand in the corner with your drink and leave all the rest of us alone. Yes, yes, you're right and everyone else is wrong. That—like your immense talent—is a given. But just because you're right doesn't mean you should be a dick about it.

I saw the light go out in her eyes, but I kept telling her how much I loved her until they took her away from me at the hospital." "Why did you do that?" Jane asked. "I needed to be sure that the last thing she heard was me telling her how much I loved her," I said.

Making people change because you can't deal with who they are isn't how it's supposed to be done. What needs to be done is for people to pull their heads out of their asses.

some of your writer friends will do better than you, by whatever standard you decide "better" counts as. And you know what you should do? Be happy for them, you neurotic twit.

What I owe those I kill is understanding. I owe them the courtesy of recognition; acknowledgement that they were something other than just another thing I had to kill on the way to other things I had to kill.

Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.

How do you feel?" "I have a headache," Lee said. "My muscles are sore. I am dying of thirst. I have to pee. I am restrained. I'm blind. How are you?" "Better than you, I will admit

allow me to share with you my philosophy of human beings. It can be summed up in four words: I like good people. You seem like good people. I can't say that's all that matters to everyone, but it's what matters to me.

It takes a special kind of pathetic loser to help someone you hate just to make his girlfriend happy, I thought.

Maybe that's what's bothering me," I said. "There's no sense of consequence. I just took a living, thinking thing and hurled it into the side of a building. Doing it didn't bother me at all. The fact that it didn't does bother me, Alan. There ought to be consequences to our actions.

No human is an island. They are rarely even peninsulas.

Actually, the captain and I were just talking about the plight of the less advantaged," Kiva said. "You?" Ghreni said, disbelieving. "One, fuck you, and two, yes.

Kiva had been struck by a realization that, if not exactly an epiphany, was certainly enough to make her stop in her tracks: Either she was going to have to become less fundamentally selfish, or she was going to have to find a way to make others less so.

Making people change because you can't deal with who they are isn't how it's supposed to be done. What needs to be done is for people to pull their heads out of their asses. You say 'cure.' I hear 'you're not human enough

If you can't write a comment that isn't ultimately a segue into topics you feel are important, ask yourself why everything has to be about you.

I listen....because I don't have any answers.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

A guy needs somebody?to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.

it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.

You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.

His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.