1,354 Quotes About Empathy

It is not learning we need at all. Individuals need learning but the culture needs something else, the pulse of light on the sea, the warm urge of huddling together to keep out the cold. We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.

Even though I didn't think I'd like empathy it kind of creeps up on you and makes you feel all warm and glowy inside. I don't think I want to go back to life without empathy.

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

If you look into someone's face long enough, eventually you're going to feel that you're looking at yourself.

How can the intensity of this shame be understood by those who have never experienced it? How can they understand the strength of the motivations produced by the desire to escape from it?

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.

The difference between a moral person and a person of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, made out of weakness and tries to make amends with their life when they find the opportunity to say they are sorry is lost.

Humans have long since possessed the tools for crafting a better world. Where love, compassion, altruism and justice have failed, genetic manipulation will not succeed.