1,354 Quotes About Empathy

We have a brain in our belly, a very sophisticated one, and it responds to everything that’s happened in our lives, so it accumulates a lot of stories over time.

Only a shipwrecked person who has just escaped drowning could understand the psychology of someone who breaks out in laughter just because he is able to breathe

Every time I speak of the haters and losers I do so with great love and affection. They cannot help the fact that they were born fucked up!

Disliking humanity in general, she was one of those excessively tender-hearted people who are greatly moved by the troubles of complete strangers, in which she sometimes imagined herself playing a noble part.

A lack of empathy is a defining characteristic of the sociopath.

All this she saw in their eyes, and the sight filled her own with water warmer and much older than the rain.

But people could walk the same road and see different things.

I had observed that neurotypicals criticised autistic people for lacking empathy… but seldom made any effort to improve their own empathy towards autistic people. Pg 318

As I looked up to the stars, I began to cry. I thought the one star that was missing was the Puerto Rican star on the American flag.