Empathy Quote by John Banville

“Shared sorrow is lessened, shared joy is increased”

— Spider Robinson

“Neither did she realise yet that grief is a kind of glue, too, that the essence of humanity is this empathy, and that we…

— Niall Williams

“When we share in each other's grief and pain, we lighten it. Or maybe we just give each other permission to feel it fully…

— Karpov Kinrade

“Our biggest moments have happened in silence. In glances and embraces. As though our souls had found rest within each other. As though our…

— Liz Newman

“The kindness sent from one compassionate soul to another during the time of loss of one held so dear allows the sorrow-filled heart to…

— Molly Friedenfeld

“Perhaps we become accustomed to our grief and, as it becomes increasingly familiar, increasingly part of the emotional landscape, it becomes a dullness. But…

— David Rieff

'There is nothing,we like to see so much as a gleam of pleasure in a persons eye we he feels that we have sympathized…

— Andrew Guzaldo

“Imagine if we were capable of a form of empathy that lets us know one another by savoring the aura we leave on the…

— Robin Nagle

“When grief impounds our thinking and eats our brains, it seeps through all the cracks of our daily living. Only the soothing wind of…

— Erik Pevernagie

“Because of sorrow, my awareness of life's pulse is strongly detectable. It is syncopation while I journey, a lap of ocean in the eyes…

— Patricia Hickman

“No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine that they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each…

— Franz Schubert