1,354 Quotes About Empathy

The worst of it was that those people out there-the fear, the suffering the wholesale death-did not really touch him. Crake used to say that Homo sapiens sapiens was not hard-wired to individuate other people in numbers above two hundred, the size of a primal tribe, and Jimmy would reduce that number to two.

We develop more empathy, when we realise that we are all ultimately looking for the same things - love, peace and acceptance.

Here we are, you and I, and I hope that Christ makes a third with us. No one can interrupt us now... So come now, dearest friend, reveal your heart and speak your mind." (p. 29)

I realized I could only play-act at the spiritual life as long as my appetites were stronger than my empathy.

You don't think any job's a job unless it's your job.

So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold those opinions about.

A thousand pounds for clothes--when on thinks how long poor people could live on it! When one thinks how long we could live on it, for that matter!

Jesus is persecuted in every injured saint, and He is mighty to avenge His beloved ones.

Some of us make it out. But the game is played with loaded dice. I wish I had known more, and I wished I had known it sooner.