Quotes about Empathy
I thought perhaps it was more important to listen than to be heard.
— Alice Hoffman
Was it possible to know anyone, truly?
— Alice Hoffman
She didn't thank Ben, and she probably should have, but maybe he knows that she's grateful. Maybe he understands that saying thank you can be just as hard as saying good-bye.
— Alice Hoffman
That was how you knew love. My mother had told me that. All you had to do as imagine your life without the other person, and if the thought alone made you shiver, then you knew.
— Alice Hoffman
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
— Alice Hoffman
She once told me that anyone who gets married had better like herself, because there's nobody else in this world that she'll ever really know, not truly.
— Alice Hoffman
I'm really happy that you're here." This is not an outright lie. No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.
— Alice Hoffman
she wanted to sit in the dark and whisper all of her fears into an ear which would hold every word like a silver shell.
— Alice Hoffman
Sometime after the accident, her parents stopped talking to each other unless they needed to discuss a household chore or a doctor's appointment. It's true, tragedy can bring you closer or drive you apart.
— Alice Hoffman
To find someone, it was necessary to follow in the way that the angels who follow men's lives on earth are said to do, charting each trespass without judgment, for judgment is never ours to give.
— Alice Hoffman
Be grateful if you have walked through the world with another's heart in your hand.
— Alice Hoffman
What belonged to you once, will always belong to you. Be grateful if you have walked through the world with another's heart in your hand.
— Alice Hoffman