Quotes About Empathy

We're all a little broken." Quiet. Potent. "No one goes through life with a whole heart.

He's a sick old man who's lost everything and everyone. You have a huge heart, Gabriel—find room in it to be kind.

The song he sang was about a sparrow with a broken wing, and it fucking tore Abe's heart right out of his chest, left it bleeding on the floor.

Sometimes, it was better to extend the hand of friendship than to force compliance by fear.

El amor crece cuando se cuida

You have a huge heart, find room in it to be kind.

No one could travel a hard road all alone.

I never saw her down, you know? But those last two times, it was like she was . . . fading. As if someone was stealing her spirit.

That works." The tightness in her chest eased. "Kind of seems one-sided though. You're giving up everything." "I get you." A simple statement that meant more than she could ever articulate.

Love gives far more than it ever takes. And love makes us want to give. Words

You kiss my scars and I kiss yours. Fair?

the couples that make it are the ones who have no secrets. Because even a tiny thing can act like a grain of sand against skin, rubbing and rubbing until it makes you bleed.

How can I be angry with the other half of my soul?" he asked, his tone so tender it tore little pieces out of her heart.

People smiled if you smiled at them. Beautiful angels included.

There was a reason Titus tried not to become too close to mortals; he'd made mortal friends in his youth… and he mourned them to this day. Those who saw mortals as cattle had never danced close to their small, brilliant lights and been singed in the aftermath. It broke his heart to think of friends gone, gifts lost forever, dazzling

Her heart was tender. She probably felt shame for a transgression others would've long forgotten.

There's no ledger. You were there for one another, and because of that, I have a man who lives in my heart and he has a friend he knows he can rely on no matter what.

He also has a woman willing to walk in his darkness and not judge him. You don't know how much that means.

Politeness is a good thing; it works to keep people onside, keep them talking- and keep them from looking too deep. People tell me all kinds of things because I'm polite and empathic. Dr. Jitrnicka tells me it's a controlling tactic because I do it will so much self-awareness.

I might be a self-diagnosed sociopath with a mask for every occasion, but I wasn't a monster.

boy who had grown up with a monster. "That," he said, "is a matter of opinion. Some would say he was a perfect creation of Silence. Totally without emotion, without empathy. To him, the murders were interesting experiments.

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.

Oh, what a gift God made when He created dogs. She had loved—and laid to rest—so many sweet dogs in her lifetime—each with its own personality; each with its own way of bringing comfort; each with solemn, loving eyes that were filled with all the wisdom in the world; and each leaving a gaping hole in her heart when they died and making her vow to never get another, never set herself up for so much sadness again. But she always did.

No one ever knows the heart of anyone else