Quotes about Empathy

When you help others, your own troubles aren't as heavy. In fact, you can fold them like a handkerchief and place them in your pocket. They're still there, but they're not the only thing you carry.

Then I understood that when someone begins to tell you her story, you are entwined together. Perhaps even more so if the ending hasn't been divulged. It was exactly like dreaming the same dream, then waking too soon and never finding out what had happened.

And what of monsters? Can they love too? We know quite well they can. For we know that they do.

I had been blind to the pain of others until I had my own burden to carry.

A familiar is such a creature, an animal or bird that sees inside to the very soul of its human companion, and knows what others might not. What fears there might be, and what joys, for it shares the emotions of its human partner.

A lot of people don't know what to do about grief. I don't blame you for a thing.

To friendship," she agreed, although for the longest time they didn't let go of each other and she knew exactly what he was thinking—This must be fate—for that was what she was thinking as well.

Let my burden be your burden, and yours be mine.

Let love be one, let it heal what had been broken, let it open the door to hope for the future.

You think terrible things can't happen because they've never happened to you, but they're out there, all the time, every day. They happen to someone.

You think terrible things can't happen because they've never happened to you, but they're out there, all the time, every day. They happen to someone.

I wondered if damaged people ever got over what damaged them.