Quotes About Empathy

Sometimes the greatest wounds are the ones we try the hardest not to inflict.

Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you.

There are a thousand ways to hurt someone you love that have nothing to do with physical violence.

being physically intimidating didn't keep you from getting your feelings hurt. Everyone's heart is the same size.

I have no personal stake in these people, Jean-Claude, but they are people. Good, bad, or indifferent, they are alive, and no one has the right to just arbitrarily snuff them out." So it is the sanctity of life you cling to? I nodded. "That and the fact that every human being is special. Every death is a loss of something precious and irreplaceable.

He gave a small nod, and I smiled back, and that was it. He understood that I'd understood that he'd understood. It took us one sentence, two looks, and a nod - with another woman it would have been at least five minutes of out-loud talking. Lucky for me I spoke fluent guy.

How do you introduce boyfriend C to boyfriend A after boyfriend A has been such a good sport, of late, about boyfriend B, who is no longer in the picture?

I'd have much rather gotten dragged into someone else's fight than face what was waiting for me. Other people's emotional pain, no matter how painful, is so much less painful than your own.

Zerbrowski said, I only ever understood one woman, and she was kind enough to marry me so I didn't have to decipher anyone else.

Be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.

Children make that big a difference to you? He asked. I nodded. Yeah, they do. I never figured you as the maternal type. I'm not, but kids are people, Edward, little people trapped by the choices the adults around them make.

If you didn't understand the need for friendship or love, could you be lonely?

I really wish the "normal" people would leave us freaks alone and stop trying to save us. We get by, we take care of each other, and the people who cost the freaks their jobs didn't give them employment, or a place to stay, or a family to be a part of; they just destroyed their world and felt morally superior for doing it.

Sociopaths spend their lives studying people, because we have to imitate things we don't understand, or feel, to blend in. It makes us some of the most observant people on the planet.

I took a fresh mug of coffee. Grilling grieving families always goes down better with caffeine.

He will not let you come barging in to his world like the proverbial bull in the china shop.

He held Saraid the rest of the way home, and in a way she held him right back, because sometimes and especially for a man, being able to be someone's big strong shoulder to cry on helps you not need to cry so very much yourself.

There are so few true villains, just other screwed-up people who pass the damage on.

Can you really rescue anyone, or anything, without rescuing a piece of yourself at the same time?

I never forgave anyone for anything. A character flaw to be sure, but hell, everyone's got to have at least one.

Is he your only child? I asked, my only son padma said. My condolences I said....Anita Blake

There are pains too deep for words, but there's touch to say what words can't.

He always seemed to know just what I needed, just when I needed it. If we weren't in love, then how did he do that? Hell, I'd been in love with people that didn't even come close to meeting this many of my needs.

Some women feel loved if you do the dishes without being reminded; some men feel loved if you'll play a video game with them, others if you buy them a collar and a nice leash and occasionally lead them around by it.