Quotes About Empathy

I was young once and slender and pretty and I made the most of it. It's somebody else's turn now.

I confronted the fact that I was not only talking to a dog, but answering for one.

I can't answer you in a nutshell. We wouldn't fit unless we saw the same shrink.

'Why are you yelling at the television when you know they cannot hear you?' 'You wouldn't understand, ' said Asher, his gaze locked on the screen. 'It's a human thing.'

[Hearing] was distinct from listening, which could only be achieved when hearing was combined with giving a shit.

I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything's going to fall apart.

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.

When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.

Why anybody gets my sense of humor I never know, but I do know that when they do, I keep them as close as I possibly can.

We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.

I decline to go fox hunting (nor did she want her sons William and Harry to be involved in hunting).

I went hunting, I shot a deer, and it mortified me. I just couldn't do it again.

I am sort of anti-hunting. I don't put down what anyone wants to do, but it seems to me that killing a creature for fun is not a progressive idea.

In all my years of Ghost Hunting I have never been afraid, after all, a ghost is only a fellow human being in trouble

I decline to go fox hunting.

And people get so weird about mental illness, you follow the rules! You don't up a heart patient on a roller coaster, you don't put a mental patient on a hunting trip with you!

It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.

Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

What you contemplate, you touch. What you enter into in imagination, you make yourself one with.

Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you've just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote.