Quotes About Empathy

Just ask me how I'm feeling," I want to say. "Just ask and I may tell you." But no one does.

It's kind of like a grief, and it's not a puzzle that you're supposed to work out on your own

I can hazard a guess, but I'll never know/ Why you put these walls up, I can't get through/It's as though you want to be lonely and blue.

Do not cry," she said fiercely, but her own tears flowed. "Do not cry, Finnikin. For if we begin, our tears will never end.

People divulge things to you that they would not divulge to anyone else.

Working with them was tough at first, because the Mackees were dealing with their own shit, and most times it was Jimmy who did the talking. Mackee's dad later wrote to say that Jimmy had filled in the silence for them, and it made all the difference

Sometimes people who care about us say all the wrong things for all the right reasons.

La atrajo hacia él y, por una vez, entendió lo que ella había sentido cada día desde que se conocían.

Mientras le tiembla todavía el cuerpo por las convulsiones, me coge la mano y enlaza mis dedos con los suyos y por primera vez en la vida, desde que tengo uso de razón, siento el dolor de otra persona.

Vale más una persona cuando alguien sufre por ella?

Ha perfeccionado el arte de mirar directamente a las personas mientras evita mirarlas a los ojos.

The grief hits her hard one day. The way it can't be controlled. The way that yesterday can be good and so can the day before, and so can the week and fortnight before that, but then today comes and she's back to zero.

Why do they always have to remember the pathetic stuff? Why can't they ever remember something positive being said about me?

No llores —le dijo ella con dureza, aunque las lágrimas le cubrían su propio rostro—. No llores, Finnikin, porque si empezamos a llorar, nuestras lágrimas no acabarán nunca.

It's against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.

When she's gone, Tom dares to look at Sam and then the ultrasound photo again. "You've fathered the elephant man. Someone has to tell her.

Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?

And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die.

never put you first again. And for that, I'm truly sorry. You deserve to be put above all others with me, all the time.

Sometimes partial kindness kills a person as bad as partial knowin.' Judy said this while she hugged the dress. "But then sometimes partial kindness and partial knowin' is the two best things in the world.

Partial kindness breaks the heart...

You don't need a reason to forgive... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do.

You did the best you could," and she seemed to believe I had. I said, "I've just been going through the motions," using the expression my father had after he'd watched my first tennis lesson. "Sweetie," she said, "that's what a lot of life is.

You cannot be with someone just because you don't want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.