Quotes About Empathy

You can't run away from home without destroying somebody's world.

When Brocker arrived he took her hands and held them to his face and cried into them.

I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain.

Why are you so sad, akri? (Simi) I'm not sad, Simi. (Acheron) Yes you are. I know you, akri, you gots that pain in your heart like the Simi gets whenever she cries. (Simi)

She sat one of the fluffy cats in my lap and stuffed the other down my shirt. She turned and left. 'There,' said the large man. 'The kittens will make your sad go away.

Sometimes, when you're sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry. But then the tears come back again all the same, and you fall asleep with the salty taste of them on your lips.

They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn't laugh or be sad with him.

nothing is so sad as the injustices of old age.

people are not good to each other. perhaps if they were our deaths would not be so sad.

Just watching Israel bombarding Palestine and Palestine sending one or two little rockets over to Israel - it's just too sad for words.

It's a sad comment on humans that none of them are tolerable to one who can read their minds

Often times we call a man [or woman] cold when he [or she] is only sad.

I think because I can be sad, and I can be lonely, my gift would be trying to help other people feel less lonely and less sad. Because that's what I understand.

So you've made a friend. How sad for them.

He thought how sad it was to be an Animal who had never had a bunch of violets picked for him.

No individual is isolated. He who is sad, saddens others.

Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there.

I'm happy if everybody else is. I'm a big brother, the oldest. If you're happy and I'm not, I'm cool with that. If I'm happy and you're not, I'm sad.

It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep.

...the sun would leave my sky if I couldn't assume you'd simply come and tell me you were sad.

There is something so horrifying and so sad when people are living alone. That is why the old and lonely come to us.

Writing jokes for others is like having babies for someone else. It's sad. Like the woman who gives up her baby but needs to be close so she secretly becomes the maid in the household.

Further to this, Ove has the cat's resentful stares to contend with. Something in its eyes reminds him of the way Sonja used to look at him.

i see tear drops flow from youre eyes and relise life is sometimes hard but crying is not something to be ashamed about