Quotes about Empathy

Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil.

Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.

When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

It is not always events that have touched us personally that affect us the most.

In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human.

The silence of two people is deeper than the silence of one.

Look, whatever you do in life, remember, think higher and feel deeper. It cannot be bad if you do that.

What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs. This is what I say to the young Jewish boy wondering what I have done with his years. It is in his name that I speak to you and that I express to you my deepest gratitude as one who has emerged from the Kingdom of Night.

Someone who hates one group will end up hating everyone - and, ultimately, hating himself or herself.

In an inn somewhere, a wealthy guest mistakes [Rebbe Zusia] for a beggar and treats him accordingly. Later he learns his identity and comes to cry his remorse: Forgive me, Rebbe, you must - for I didn't know! Why do you ask Zusia to forgive you? Rebbe Zusia said, shaking his head and smiling. You haven't done anything bad to him; it is not Zusia you insulted but a poor beggar, so go and ask the beggars, everywhere, to forgive you!

If your suffering splashes others, those around you, those for whom you represent a reason to live, then you must kill it, choke it.