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Quotes About Empathy

My own heart let me more have pity on; let Me live to my sad self hereafter kind, Charitable; not live this tormented mind With this tormented mind tormenting yet.
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.
~ Maya Angelou
Reynie's fce fell. 'It's not funny, Kate.' For a moment - a fleeting moment - Kate looked desperately sad. 'Well, of course it's not funny, Reynie Muldoon. But what do you want me to do? Cry?
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people.
~ Stephanie Beacham
Mainly, I thought of Barney Fife as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.
~ Don Knotts
How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
~ Alice Walker
And the more you spend in blessing The poor and lonely and sad, The more of your heart's possessing Returns to you glad.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
You see all these things that make you feel desperate or sad, but you realize changes can be made, and it doesn't take a lot of money on our part to make a change in people's lives.
~ John Legend
If I'm feeling hurt, sad, lonely, depressed, and then I shame myself for feeling that, then that's a black hole for me. I really have worked a lot to meet pain with both gratitude and gentleness.
~ Bellamy Young
He'd come back, all open and helpless, and I suppose that's what won her around in the end. But it was so sad, because it was being himself that he found so difficult to cope with.
~ Melvin Burgess
To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown?ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I have no relationships and I'm, like, sad sometimes.
~ Farrah Abraham
Finding like-minded people is very important. It's hard to be a happy meal in a room full of sad people.
~ Lilly Singh
Sadness is very close to hate.
~ Michael Ondaatje
Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Suicide - when I think of it, to me it means someone had a lot of problems and they couldn't fight through them anymore. That's not cowardly. It's sad and nothing but.
~ Chris Gethard
A lot of deaths feel sad. Philip Seymour Hoffman's feels like a robbery.
~ James Poniewozik
How sad it is when someone comes to you looking for Jesus and all they see is you.
~ Mother Teresa
It's always sad if anybody you know has a personal problem.
~ Lee Child
Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan For that deep wound it gives my friend and me; Is't not enough to torture me alone, But slave to slavery my sweet'st friend must be?
~ William Shakespeare
If your best friend's feeling tearful, Try not to be too cheerful. Just let her fill your ear full Of sad tales by the score. And when she is through, She'll feel as good as.
~ Beatrice Schenk de Regniers
Biologically we're all the same. We all get sad, we all get happy, and we all die. Anyone who pretends that that's not the case is either a sociopath or utterly delusional.
~ Moby
My heart's with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.
~ Stephen King, It
When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad.
~ Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down