Quotes About Empathy

It's a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible.

To be reminded that one is very much like other members of the animal kingdom is often funny...though...I do not too much mind being somewhat like a cat.

[On Ronald Reagan:] Jane Wyman seemed more upset with her husband's obsession with politics than I. I tried to make her laugh. 'He'll outgrow it,' I told her. To her it wasn't funny.

In school I was always the funny-looking, tall, skinny kid that got made fun of because of my weird teeth.

Just because you're funny doesn't mean you get to be cruel.

Isn't it funny how the people least impacted by tragedy are the most eager to move on?

Sorry - Americans only buy things that come from suffering. They just enjoy it more when they know someone's getting hurt.

On his telepathic understanding with James Worthy- It's almost like we have ESPN.

People who laugh so heartily at what they themselves have said, when it is not funny, dispense us accordingly, by taking upon themselves the responsibility for the mirth, from joining in it.

I like to make jokes; I consider myself a funny person. I just think making jokes about people who are in a situation beyond their control is not funny to them or their families.

When somebody says, "The last thing I want to do is hurt you," it means they've got other things to do first.

I always feel bad laughing at people who act crazy. But sometimes the things they do are so damned funny. I wonder what I'd look like if I slipped a few notches on the mental-health index.

I like how you don't hide your problems like everyone else, and I don't have to hide mine when I'm around you.

It's funny but when young people say to me "what can I study to be a force for change, should I study law or biology or business?" My answer is music, drama, journalism, communications.

If you teach your children nothing else, teach them the Golden Rule and "righty-tighty, lefty-loosey.

Anything that's really grounded in humanity and is real, but just happens to be faux pas, or just really shouldn't be funny, I like it.

I don't think half my stuff would be funny if the audience didn't feel at least a little bit safe that it's not how I truly feel.

I think ultimately, when you believe somebody is going through a situation and it's either awkward or ridiculous, but you believe it, that can be funny.

15 Step is about how if you have mental illness and try to dance you look very funny. Whenever you see me dancing on stage, I'm imitating the mentally ill.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity – another man's, I mean.

Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.

True friends chop the onions and cry together.

Your mail could've waited." Daemon followed me into the kitchen. "What is it? Just books?"Grabbing the OJ from the fridge, I sighed. People who didn't heart books didn't understand.

However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, "I'm just crying because of how wrong you are.