Empathy Quotes

780 Empathy quotes by 496 unique authors

Such lonely, lost things you find on your way. It would be easier, if you were the only one lost. But lost children always find… — Catherynne M. Valente
Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform. — Derrick Bell
Were we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own – then… — Peter Singer
All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart. — Elizabeth Goudge
We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are… — Elizabeth Goudge
The brain controls pain. It controls fear. Sleep. Empathy. Hunger. Everything we associate with the heart or the soul or the nervous system is actually… — Dennis Lehane
When you are born without the ordinary feelings and emotions shared by most other human beings, life looks different to you. It seems at times… — Boyd Rice
I need voices of reason and of hysteria and of empathy. I need to have an Alanis moment. I need advice from Elizabeth Bennett. I… — Melina Marchetta
When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival. — Yann Martel
When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, since women were "supposed" to suffer. One of the few… — Nicholas D. Kristof
How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all. — Margaret Atwood
We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves. — Martin Buber
Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all. — Stephen King
Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because,ultimately, the empathic gift blurred… — Philip K. Dick
Relational trust is built on movements of the human heart such as empathy, commitment, compassion, patience, and the capacity to forgive. — Parker J. Palmer
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. — Simone Weil
You’re like a god from a Greek myth, Saiman. You have no empathy. You have no concept of the world beyond your ego. Wanting something… — Ilona Andrews
I'm a citizen of the republic of empathy. — Sam Lipsyte
Be kind, be all sympathy, For each and every human being Is forced to fight against himself. — Sri Chinmoy
Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are. And this is… — Jonathan Franzen
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have… — Steve Martin
It was about grace, she decides, something that has been missing from her own life. ... She wants to be the kind of person who… — Emily Giffin
Loss of empathy might well be the most enduring and deep-cutting scar of all, the silent blade of an unseen emey, tearing at our hearts… — R A Salvatore
It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul. — Desmond Tutu
Kylie bit down on her lip. Burnett took a step forward. He squared his shoulders, empathy filling his eyes. He took a deep, apparent heartfelt… — C.C. Hunter

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