Quotes About Empathy

When you really love, you can never be hurt.

A city becomes a world when one loves its inhabitants.

I suppose writers are cruel people. The dead do not care. It is the living who might be spared if we could quarry the message which lies buried in the heart of all human experience.

for those of us who feel deeply and who are at all conscious of the inextricable tangle of human thought there is only one response to be made — ironic tenderness and silence.

Does God care if I'm sad? Look at the tear-streaked face of Jesus as he stands near Lazarus's tomb.

Caring less what everybody else thinks, but also caring less and less about what your own mind thinks, because what your own mind thinks, sometimes, is the thing that makes you sad.

[Elbowing incident] was a joke but what I want to say now is that I'm a bit sad that everyone failed to see that.

There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words.

Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.

I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. So I said, "Got any shoes you're not using?

Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn't yours.

Mean people are really just sad people. They hurt others because they are hurting. Every person is born beautiful, and much of the ugliness in others was put inside of them by other hurting people.

I learned to practice smiling when I'm feeling sad, you know?

It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.

I appreciate when people listen to the sad songs, because it's almost like telling someone your problems and having them listen with a compassionate ear.

Isn't it sad that we only get upset about nasty things happening to people and places if television decides we should?

Some people could say, "I'd like something that's super dramatic and miserable and made me cry and made me sad forever" but that's not my taste.

The idea of giving someone something that I got, that makes me feel sad.

It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.

Sometimes to realize you were well, someone must come along and hurt you.

I knew the poor, I knew the hideous death they die, when famine lays its bleak hand on the door; I knew the rich, sated with merriment, who yet are sad.

Never be sad for what is over, just be glad it was once yours. Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

The only one interested in hearing your sad story is . . . you; and even you wish you didn't have to relive it again!

But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity.