Quotes About Empathy

Barbara ne pose pas de question. elle ne veut pas savoir ce qui s'est passé. Ce qu'elle sait, c'est que chacun ici reçoit son lot de malheurs et qu'il ne sert à rien de les partager, qu'en parler ne fait qu'alourdir le fardeau des autres. C'est une immense leçon de vie qu'elle n'oubliera jamais.

He used to say you can judge a society by how it treats its cats.

I decided i want to be a manga artist when i grow up. If you want to know why, it's because of you. I know that you hurt a lot inside. An I know that manga makes you happy. If i can make manga, maybe I can help people like you be happy.

a person. Just like her. Just like everyone. Lost and alone

I don't believe in being mean to anyone. I'm a really peaceful person. That's something I get from my family.

Love isn't something you have, it's something you do.

and that makes him wish all over again that his dad would stop crying, so he can have a turn.

I was able to construct a world view based on intimacy, vulnerability, uncertainty and commonality.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

I resolve right then not to kill him. Decent people affect me that way. The

If songs were lines in a conversation, the situation would be fine.

Perhaps everyone has a story that could break your heart...

Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are more creative people prone to madness? They have more than average amounts of energies and abilities to see things in a fresh and original way—then because they also have depression, I think they're more in touch with human suffering.

He said, "A new commandment I give you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you." And how had he loved them? Not by feeling emotional! But He washed their feet anyway, because love does not do what it feels, it does what is needed.

Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.

Over the last couple of years, the photos of me when I was a kid... well, they've started to give me a little pang or something - not unhappiness, exactly, but some kind of quiet, deep regret... I keep wanting to apologize to the little guy: "I'm sorry, I've let you down. I was the person who was supposed to look after you, but I blew it: I made wrong decisions at bad times, and I turned you into me.

When we gaze into the adoring eyes of a canine companion, we're staring at the carefully muted and shaped soul of a wolf.

And then you come back all around … People are what I need, I need to make music for people instead of saying, "Fuck people!" I used to say that, but not anymore. You love the people. You give to people. You create music for people to hear, so that they can say, "Hey, yeah, that's real

Nobody can be more cruel than a child.

could not continue with Syd in this state, coupled to which it just was not fun any more – and doubtless no fun for Syd either. We did not want to lose Syd. He was our songwriter, singer, guitarist, and – although you might not have known from our less than sympathetic treatment of him – he was our friend.

If you respect the audience enough, they can take onboard many things.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

That's it?!! You threw a blanket on her? She's not invisible, you dumb bitch!

It is always easier to see in another what we are uncomfortable with in ourselves.