Empathy Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

Here is a collection of empathy quotes and sayings from various authors, celebrities, famous persons, and other sources compiled by allinspiration.com for you to read and enjoy.

“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 about what I want to say.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident – it doesn’t matter to me. I think there’s a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.”
– Alanis Morissette 

“seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.”
– Alfred Alder

“Anguish is the universal language”
– Alice Fulton

“Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.”
– Alice Miller 

“He’d always known that shit rolled downhill, but he never knew tears did the same thing.”
– Amy Lane

“Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.”
– Anderson Cooper 

“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.”
– Andrew Boyd

“It’s when you’re excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so happy for them. And other times you see the same couple, and they make you so mad. And all you want is to feel happy for them because you know that if you do, then it means you’re happy, too.”
– Anonymous

“To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love. (157)”
– Anonymous

“Whenever you feel criticizing any one…just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
– Anonymous

“Anguish is the universal language”
– Anonymous

“Yo no soy tan fuerte. A mi me importa que me entiendan. Hay personas a quienes quiero comprender y quiero que me comprendan. Hasta cierto punto, pienso que es inevitable que el resto de la gnete no lo haga. Ya me he hecho a la idea. Así que no me ocurre lo mismo que a Nagasawa, a quien no le importa que no le entiendan.”
– Anonymous

“I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him… The land of tears is so mysterious.”
– Antoine De Saint

“To perceive is to suffer.”
– Aristotle

“We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.”
– Barack Obama 

“Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.”
– Barbara Kingsolver 

“Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.”
– Barbara Kingsolver 

“Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.”
– Barbara Kingsolver 

“All that we can’t say is all we need to hear.”
– Ben Harper

“There’s something in everyone only they know.”
– Ben Harper

“We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.”
– Bonhoeffer

“If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive.”
– Brené Brown

“Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.”
– Brené Brown

“When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That’s one of the great feelings – to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.”
– Brian Eno 

“There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy.”
– Bryant McGill

“Our bodies have five senses: touch, smell, taste, sight, hearing. But not to be overlooked are the senses of our souls: intuition, peace, foresight, trust, empathy. The differences between people lie in their use of these senses; most people don’t know anything about the inner senses while a few people rely on them just as they rely on their physical senses, and in fact probably even more.”
– C. JoyBell C

“I think people believe empathy to be compassion, that compassion is an inner sense (a sense of the soul). But empathy is a sense, while compassion isn’t a sense. Empathy is an affinity, a communion, a comprehension. They say that empathy is compassion, but I think that the two are independent of each other. You see, through empathy you will feel what another is feeling, including all those plans for manipulation and persuasion. You will feel everything, not just the parts that make you take compassion for the person, but also all the red flags! You see, empathy is a sense that works with the other senses such as foresight and intuition. So, we can feel compassion but we have to move with empathy.”
– C. JoyBell C.

“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 each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized and can only attract their . How I would to lead you to brave, stalwart friends who would protect you and play games with dice and teach you delightful songs that have no sad endings. If you would only leave cages locked and turn away from unloved Wyverns, you could stay Heartless.”
– Catherynne M. Valente

“One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man convinced of his virtue even in the midst of his vice is the worst kind of man.”
– Charles Blow

“One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough.”
– Charlie Brooker

“But compassion isn’t about solutions. It’s about giving all the love that you’ve got.”
– Cheryl Strayed

“There is absolutely no single aspect of one’s personality that is more important to develop than empathy, which is not a skill at which men typically are asked to excel. I believe empathy is not only the core of art, literature and music, but should also be at the core of society, from ethics to economics.”
– Chris Ware

“My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.”
– Chris Ware 

“It’s got to do with putting yourself in other people’s shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.”
– Christian Bale 

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