Art Quote by Patti Smith

“The human route to sympathy or empathy is a clumsy one but it's all we've got. To understand the consequences of our actions we…

— Anonymous

“The world had made him extravagant and vain - Extravagance and vanity had made him cold-hearted and selfish. Vanity, while seeking its own guilty…

— Jane Austen

“It was crime at its purest, in which empathy, that most fundamental aspect of human morality, evaporated and another being became only a target…

— Scott Turow

“When he thought of all he’d seen, done and experienced in his life, all he’d gained, lost, desired and agonized over, he found it…

— D.E. Sievers

“He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so severe that…

— Thomas Mann

“So if the world were a simple place, where the only dilemmas one had to deal with involved a single person in some sort…

— Paul Bloom

“Empathy is when you use your imagination to expand your ability to feel compassion for people in situations beyond those you have experienced, maybe…

— Kelsey Crowe

“He sat there among them, listened to the buzz of their conversation. He was captivated by them. In that racket every voice touched a…

— Deszö Kosztolányi

Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the truth about…

— Kafu Nagai

“He hadn't yet had enough experience with humans to know that the thing they hold dearest to their hearts, the last thing they relinquish…

— Gregory Maguire

“One of the great gifts of fiction is that it asks us to stretch our empathy.”

— Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

“Empathy is, first of all, an act of imagination, a storyteller's art”

— Anonymous