Quotes About Empathy

Mi biblioteca, ya que es preciso decíroslo, se compone de novelas... sí, de novelas... y de algunos poetas escogidos. Como si no tuviese bastante con mis propios males, comparto aún voluntariamente los de mil personajes imaginarios, y los siento tan vivamente como los míos.

Yo creo que dos personas que se hacen reír tienen derecho a todo.

Por qué la gente cree que llorando y quejándose de lo triste que es su vida va a merecerse cualquier cosa mejor? ¿Quién va a recompensarte por joderle el mood? ¿No sería más lógico que te pagaran por hacerlos reír?

Maybe I not need feeling lonely, because I can talk to other "me." Is like seeing my two pieces of lips speaking in two languages at same time. Yes, I not lonely, because I with another me. Like Austin Powers with his Mini Me

I don't feel naked around you anymore.

If you spend enough time reading someone else's thoughts, after a while their thoughts begin to infect you. Your grasp on yourself becomes tenuous. Or you begin to see that you never were the essential you in the first place, Iona thinks to herself as she takes the bus back to Angel. To be a person is to imagine being someone, and the someone you imagine most of the time is what people call 'you'.

Mentre scrivo queste righe a Sydney, una splendida coppia di pappagalli verdi con il petto arancione è accovacciata sul tetto dell'edificio accanto e sta nutrendo il proprio cucciolo. Se gli uccelli possono provare un simile sentimento e non abbandonare mai le loro creature, com'è possibile che degli esseri umani rinuncino ripetutamente ai loro figli?

The reason she was crying didn't matter to me. Perhaps there was no reason at all. Her tears had that sort of purity.

The door that would not open no matter how hard you pushed, no matter how long you pounded on it. The screams no one heard. Darkness, hunger, pain. Slow suffocation. One day it occurred to me that I needed to experience the same suffering he had.

A heart has no shape, no limits. That's why you can put almost any kind of thing in it, why it can hold so much.

the sound of his voice could wash away the sour feeling in my stomach.

I can hear and smell and feel everything happening in the hotel. I can't say I have much experience or even any real desires of my own, but just by shutting myself up behind the desk, I can imagine every scene being played out by the people spending the night at the Iris. Then I erase them one by one and find a quiet place to lie down and sleep

I wonder how she broke the news to her husband. I don't really know what they talk about when I'm not around. In fact, I don't really understand couples at all. They seem like some sort of inexplicable gaseous body to me—a shapeless, colorless, unintelligible thing, trapped in a laboratory beaker.

Wie sehr wir uns auch bemühten, den anderen zu verstehen, es gab immer etwas, das sich unserem Verständnis entzog. Und je mehr wir darüber redeten, desto deprimierender wurde es.

Hur tomt ett hjärta än är försöker det ändå förnimma något.

A heart has no shape, no limits. That's why you can put almost any kind of thing in it, why it can hold so much. It's much like your memory, in that sense.

A heart has no shape, no limits. That's why you can put almost any kind of thing in it, why it can hold so much. It's much like your memory, in that sense.

You needn't be afraid of them. When you see them, just remember that you, too, like all other human beings, were once a monster in one of your previous lives. Neither hate them nor do battle with them, just continue on your way.

Sometimes other people's skulls look transparent. At such moments I fall in love.

Paperback novelettes with faded covers still bore coffee stains and greasy fingerprints from their first readers. The books can never forget their readers, though the readers have no doubt forgotten all about the books' contents.

Taking care of each other is the norm—taking care of others is the exception.

Jika lawanmu tidak ingin pedangnya diambil, jangan berkeras mengambilnya.

I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.

We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.