Quotes About Empathy

Without confidence, there is no friendship.

A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.

I'll be your crying shoulder.

We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.

The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.

There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship.

Friendship reaches well above all currency.

Illness is the proving ground of friendship.

Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.

I, first of all, felt a great sense of loss, a sense of condolence for the friends that I had that were killed in that, for the loved ones.

There's a natural instinct embedded in friendship, a sympathy that makes us willing to fight for someone we like when they are treated unjustly.

I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend's shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents.

Tell me you're crazy, maybe then I'll understand.

To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.

Some great friendships can be formed because you see one another at your best and worst.

The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that, too, unconditional assistance.

The value of friendship and just deep human contact grows out of giving.

I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You'd know what a drag it is to see you.

Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend. Other times you're being interviewed by a complete jerk.

Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.

If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.

In high school, my desire for friendship far outweighed my talent for it.

I know you have much to bear with in me, and I really do sometimes in you, but I have never looked at friendship in a deep sense as easy or entirely comfortable.

What renders us so changeable in our friendship is, that it is difficult to know the qualities of the soul, but easy to know those of the mind.