Quotes about Empathy

For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.

Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories

So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and we can conceive no retribution that does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain.

Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?

We are children of a large family, and must learn, as such children do, not to expect that our little hurts will be made much of - to be content with little nurture and caressing, and help each other the more.

There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.

We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.

There is no escaping the fact that want of sympathy condemns us to a corresponding stupidity.