Empathy Quote by Richard Kearney

“The purpose of our existence is not to kill each other. Neither is it to encourage or manipulate circumstances that would result in such…

— Rob Taylor

“We only see what interests us, and we have only insight in proportion to our sympathy.”

— Anonymous

“When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, wither do we turn? To the murder column; and there we…

— George Bernard Shaw

“When we can see our own self, angry and hurting others, within every villain, then we can love. When we can see our own…

— Vironika Tugaleva

“Love is the end of sympathy.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our…

— Sigmund Freud

“To be wounded or die at the hands of one who is meant to love you. Is there a more miserable thing in the…

— Rhiannon Hart

“The reason we don’t want to feel is that feeling exposes the tragedy of our world and the darkness of our hearts.”

— Dan Allender

“Tragedy cannot be the end of our lives. We cannot allow it to control and defeat us.”

— Izzeldin Abuelaish

“So far as we feel sympathy, we feel we are not accomplices to what caused the suffering. Our sympathy proclaims our innocence as well…

— Susan Sontag

“We are suffering, all of us, because of the emptiness that surrounds us, that infiltrates between us, that penetrates through us. We are penned…

— Bill Hopkins

“In a world plagued with commonplace tragedies, only one thing exists that truly has the power to save lives, and that is love.”

— Richelle Goodrich