Quotes about Empathy
If you are a stone, be adamant; if you are a plant, be the sensitive plant; if you are a man, be love.
— Victor Hugo
The wretchedness of a child interests a mother, the wretchedness of a young man interests a young girl, the wretchedness of an old man interests no one. It is, of all distresses, the coldest.
— Victor Hugo
Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
— Victor Hugo
He understood how to sit down and hold his peace for long hours beside the man who had lost the wife of his love
— Victor Hugo
Live and Let live To love someone is to see the face of God
— Victor Hugo
Is it not the best pity, when a man has a sore point, not to touch it at all?
— Victor Hugo
The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young
— Victor Hugo
had it been given to our eyes of the flesh to gaze into the consciences of others, we should be able to judge a man much more surely according to what he dreams, than according to what he thinks.
— Victor Hugo
Now, don't kick a dog 'cause it's only a pup!
— Victor Hugo
Nothing trains children to silence like unhappiness.
— Victor Hugo
There is one thing sadder than having no money to buy bread; that is having nothing with which to buy medicine.
— Victor Hugo
In fact, were it given to our human eye to see into the consciences of others, we would judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.
— Victor Hugo