Quotes about Empathy

On the morning of September 11, 2001, I rushed home before the kids left for school and gathered them around our dining room table and told them what had happened. Like everyone else, we struggled for words to describe to our kids why such a thing would occur.

There's always pressure. People's happiness depends on you; they suffer with you. You get used to it, but you have to know how to handle it.

I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.

I've suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

Sometimes when you're suffering really intensely, you can't pray for yourself.

For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.

Suffering degrades, embitters and enrages.

Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.