Empathy Quotes And Sayings

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“The description of Huck’s father grabbed my full attention, and I glanced up at the book in my teacher’s hand as if to double check. My eyes bulged reflexively. Huck’s father was an abusive drunk just mine. The boy was hopeful that a corpse found near the river was actually his dad, but it turned out not to be. It was spooky how high my hopes rose for the boy, and then sank so utterly low when the body was discovered to be a female in disguise. I should’ve mourned for the woman, but it was the boy I felt bad for.”
– Richelle E. Goodrich

“The glory of fame isn’t in having so many people know you, but in having so many people know you care. Otherwise, it’s being drawn to a fire to find no warmth.”
– Richelle E. Goodrich

“I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.”
– Roger Ebert

“What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations in Putamayo and the blacks of Africa with whose bodies the Europeans play ball… I have no special corner in my heart for the ghetto: I am at home in the entire world, where there are clouds and birds and human tears.”
– Rosa Luxemburg

“My knowledge of myself is direct, synthetic, from within outwards; my knowledge of other persons is indirect, analytical, from outside inwards. My knowledge of myself starts at the core; that of others at the crust.”
– Salvador de Madariaga

“I’m a citizen of the republic of empathy.”
– Sam Lipsyte

“Sunday dinner isn’t sunny. Easter feasts are just bad luck. When you see it from the viewpoint of a chicken or a duck. Oh how I once loved tuna salad Pork and lobsters, lamb chops too Till I stopped and looked at dinner From the dinner’s point of view.”
– Shel Silverstein

“Thanksgiving dinner’s sad and thankless. Christmas dinner’s dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey’s point of view.”
– Shel Silverstein

“Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant with the weak and wrong. Sometime in your life, you will have been all of these.”
– Siddh?rtha Gautama

“This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds – the most beautiful senses, the most exquisite emotions.. the most malevolent desires, the darkest deeds. Perhaps it was meant to be so. Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached.”
– Stephenie Meyer

“I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy…that makes you unkind.”
– Sue Miller

“None of us can choose where we shall love…”
– Susan Kay

“I think I’m an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.”
– Susan Saradon

“When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.”
– Susan Sarandon 

“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”
– Tahereh Mafi

“Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don’t have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can’t stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there’s too much stimulation.”
– Temple Grandin 

“I’ve noticed that about your people, Doctor. You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million. You speak about the objective hardness of the Vulcan heart, yet how little room there seems to be in yours.”
– The Immunity Syndrome

“No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Nothing renews my faith in humanity more than the exchange of compassion so profound that mere words cannot embrace it.”
– Tiffany Madison

“True contentment comes with empathy.”
– Tim Finn 

“One reason we rush so quickly to the vulgar satisfactions of judgment, and love to revel in our righteous outrage, is that it spares us from the impotent pain of empathy, and the harder, messier work of understanding.”
– Tim Kreider

“Empathy needs no genius.”
– Toba Beta

“The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin

“I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.”
– Walt Whitman

“If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others. Ideologues don’t feel the pain of others because they haven’t imaginatively got under their skins.”
– Yann Martel

“When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.”
– Yann Martel

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