Quotes About Empathy

Vic knelt by Lucas's side. 'You look like crap, by the way.''Thanks for breaking it to me gently.' Lucas took a deep breath, then groaned.

Please. If you were mostly dead in the middle of the road I'd obviously stop. And then I'd watch you die."Kate to Will

And you'd think that killing people would make them like you, but it doesn't. It just- it just makes them dead.

I never meant it, " he was saying. "Never meant it to happen. Can't stand it, seeing her suffer. Must do something, do something... What do I do? What can I do...?

Let your eyes talk, mouth listens and ear sleeps.

What is it? Tens, I can see the stick up your arse from here. I'm dying remember? Dying people don't have time for silly moods

We have allowed the system to be so corrupted that many want justice to be "empathetic, " not blind.

You think that killing people will make them like you more, but it doesn't, it just makes them dead.

Just shut up and talk. - Shella

Very helpful, I must say. Look at them in the eye and shout, and they understand every word..." (Mr. Warbeck in Sienna, talking about local Italians.)

It would be the last thing he did if he beat my dog.

I never hear about dear Mike. I wrote Ellen Greene and asked about him and she replyed and never mentioned Mike but told me all about her roomatism. As if I cared about her roomatism.

He studied with the guru of rock n' roll, Baba Oom Mow Mow, who taught his own version of the Golden Rule: "Do wop unto others as you would have them do wop unto you.

Naturally, we lunatics are the kindest of the bunch.

But then again, I shouldn't judge. That is, after all, my pet peeve.

Are you okay?" "Yeah." "Good, " she said, "because if you fall off a skyscraper, I'll be so mad at you.

Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.

To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.

We are sometimes hurt mostly or only not by what happened or is happening to us but by being felt sorry for.

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

Sometimes advises from others are more difficult to bear with than even slang.

When you argue with someone, you always argue at the level of the person with the lowest level of intelligence. You never argue up.

It was easier when all we wanted to do was eat them and take their stuff, " he grumbled.And it had been easier when he hadn't cared if he made any of them cry.

You will stay with me. You will sleep here at my side and you will touch me. I am depressed but not when you stroke my chest.