Quotes About Empathy

I'm learnin' one thing good,'' she said. "Learnin' it all a time, ever' day. If you're in trouble or hurt or need—go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help—the only ones.'' The

And since old Tom and the children could not know hurt or fear unless she acknowledged hurt and fear, she had practiced denying them in herself. And since, when a joyful thing happened, they looked to see whether joy was on her, it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.

No," said George. "No, Lennie. I ain't mad. I never been mad, an' I ain't now. That's a thing I want ya to know.

The political reality Steinbeck examined in Of Mice and Men, set a "few miles south of Soledad"—Spanish for "solitude"—is the intense loneliness and anger engendered by hopelessness.

Y es que, como es natural, los hombres sólo se interesan por ellos mismos. Si el oyente no tiene implicación en la historia, no prestará atención, de lo que se puede extraer que una historia grande y duradera tiene que comprometer a todos, o no perdurará

You couldn't get into him—he couldn't get out to you. But in that old agony there had been no wall. In his wife Adam had touched the living world.

Yes, you should talk," he said. "Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth.

Hate cannot live alone.

Slim smiled wryly. He knelt down beside Curley. "You got your senses in hand enough to listen?" he asked. Curley nodded.

Ama baz? insanlar için için bütün dünyayla dosttur, baz?lar? da kendilerinden nefret eder, nefretleri etrafa k?zarm?? ekmeÄŸin üstündeki tereya?? gibi yay?l?r.

I says, 'Maybe it ain't a sin. Maybe it's just the way folks is. Maybe we been whippin' the hell out of ourselves for nothin'.

A guy needs somebody—to be near him." He whined, "A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.

John Steinbeck

Ask him! The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.

You know, Mr. Trask, once I had a wife. I made her up just as you did, only mine had no life outside my mind. She was good company in my little room. I would talk and she would listen, and then she would talk, would tell me all the happenings of a woman's afternoon. She was very pretty and she made coquettish little jokes. But now I don't know whether I would listen to her. And I wouldn't want to make her sad or lonely. So there's my first plan gone.

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

A guy needs somebody—to be near him." He whined, "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," he cried, "I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Lennie said, I thought you was mad at me, George. No, said George. No, Lennie, I ain't mad. I never been mad, and I ain' now. That's a thing I want ya to know.

Of the various kinds of intelligence, generosity is the first. Gienka Home from the Ball Bearing Plant (1943)

Attention is the most basic form of love; through it we bless and are blessed

As if pity is, as he has been taught, not a helpless outcry but a powerful tide that could redeem the world...

Nothing feels worse than other people's good times.

All these prohibitions old people think up. I think people should be free to do what they want unless it's hurting someone else.