Quotes About Empathy

Home is not where you live, but where they understand you." —Christian Morgenstern "Call

Anyone who never met a man he didn't like just isn't trying hard enough.

men are as vulnerable to joy as they are to suffering.

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold…. The same reason that makes us bicker with a neighbor creates a war between princes.

Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition—and perchance to some excess—I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Shared suffering, she'd found, was no guarantee of intimacy.

Because human beings suffer so much more than ducks." "You might not think so if you were a duck.

she and they were all the same under the skin, weren't they?

Even in our deepest, most lasting friendships, we never speak as openly as when we face a blank page and address a reader we do not know.

To love a book is, above all, to love its author: we want to meet him again, we want to spend our days with him.

It's hard to understand other people, to know what's hidden in their hearts, and without the assistance of alcohol it might never be done.

Il est bien difficile de comprendre les autres, de savoir ce qui se cache au fond de leurs cÅ"urs, et sans l'assistance de l'alcool on n'y parviendrait peut-être même pas du tout

De même, un livre qu'on aime, c'est avant tout un livre dont on aime l'auteur, qu'on a envie de retrouver, avec lequel on a envie de passer ses journées.

In that time he had managed to write books that made me consider him a friend more than a hundred years later.

Mais seule la littérature peut vous donner cette sensation de contact avec un autre esprit humain

impossible for people who have lived and prospered under a given social system to imagine the point of view of those who feel it offers them nothing, and who can contemplate its destruction without any particular dismay.

Seule la littérature peut vous permettre d'entrer en contact avec l'esprit d'un mort, de manière plus directe, plus complète et plus profonde que ne le ferait même la conversation avec un ami – aussi profonde, aussi durable que soit une amitié, jamais on ne se livre, dans une conversation, aussi complètement qu'on ne le fait devant une feuille vide, s'adressant à un destinataire inconnu.

Historically, such human beings have existed. Human beings who have worked - worked hard - all their lives with no motive other than love and devotion, who have literally given their lives for others, out of love and devotion; human beings who have no sense of having made any sacrifice, who cannot imagine any way of life other than giving their lives for others, out of love and devotion. In general, such human beings are generally women.

avea alt? patologie, alt? poveste, aÈ™a c? m-am culcat aproape liniÈ™tit, fiindc? ne liniÈ™teÈ™te s? vedem, în mijlocul dramelor noastre, existenÈ›a altor drame, de care am fost scutiÈ›i.

Kiedy byÅ'am maÅ'a – opowiedziaÅ'a mi nieco pó?niej – nie mogÅ'am nawet kury zabi?. Ja, prawdÄ™ mówiÄ…c, te? nie; ale zabi? czÅ'owieka wydawaÅ'o mi siÄ™ du?o Å'atwiejsze.

Po poros minu?i? suvokiau, kad kalb?ti man dar sunkiau nei klausytis, problem? man k?l? santykiai su žmon?mis apskritai <…>.

a decir verdad, algunos seguidores de esos movimientos parecían incluso tomar sistemáticamente partido por los animales en contra del hombre, sentir más congoja ante el anuncio de la desaparición de una especie de invertebrados que ante el de una hambruna que diezmara la población de un continente. Hoy