Empathy Quotes

780 Empathy quotes by 496 unique authors

When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him. — Euripides
Empathy is the most radical of human emotions. — Gloria Steinem
What is real to me is the power of our awareness when we are focused on something beyond ourselves. It is a shaft of light… — Terry Tempest Williams
Encouragement requires empathy and seeing the world from your spouse's perspective. We must first learn what is important to our spouse. Only then can we… — Gary Chapman
Indeed, when I came to Italy, I expected to encounter a certain amount of resentment, but have received instead empathy from most Italians. In any… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind. — Sue Miller
The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a… — Susan Sontag
That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Training moments occur when both parents and children do their jobs. The parent's job is to make the rule. The child's job is to break… — Henry Cloud
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. — William Shakespeare
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can… — Pema Chodron
Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do… — Cornel West
Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees and physics and… — Jonathan Safran Foer
It is not learning we need at all. Individuals need learning but the culture needs something else, the pulse of light on the sea, the… — Lydia Millet
A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this… — Azar Nafisi
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I… — John Connolly
When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them. — Martin Buber
This is the most enormous extension of vision of which life is capable: the projection of itself into other lives. This is the lonely, magnificent… — Loren Eiseley
I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person. — Walt Whitman
Man wishes to be confirmed in his being by man, and wishes to have a presence in the being of the other…. Secretly and bashfully… — Martin Buber
When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking… — Abraham Lincoln
My heart goes out to him. Sort of. Because empathy depends on how you've spent your day. — George Saunders
If leeches ate peaches instead of my blood, then I would be free to drink tea in the mud! — Emilie Autumn
I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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