1,354 Quotes About Empathy

Nowhere in the bible did it say, “Only show compassion and empathy to those you can trust.” If we did that, we would be burying homeless people every day.

Just because his own wings were burnt, it didn't mean he had to burn others’.

I had a dream that I was in someone else’s shoes for once…they were the wrong size.

Writing fiction is one of the greatest forms of empathy. It's not enough to simply write from the perspective of your characters...you have to feel what they feel.

Walk with me for a while, my friend—you in my shoes, I in yours—and then let us talk.

I couldn’t think of anyone I’d ever felt sorry for. There were plenty of kids I was envious of. There were others I achingly admired, but that might simply be another form of jealousy. Then there were those I feared, dreaded. And the worst of them, the man who shamed me. I could see my father’s angry features looming over my mother. I could clearly picture her beside him in his truck, cowering against the door while he belittled and assaulted her. I guess I did know someone I felt sorry for.

The choices were mine. The errors, mine. But if people only understood how those mistakes were never intended. If only they understood how I never meant to end up here. Not like this. Never this broken. Never this stained. Perhaps if they understood, they would cease to speak of me in the cold, judgmental way they do. If only one person understood.

Other people don’t have the challenges we have... but that doesn’t mean they don’t have their own.

Lincoln learned to summon the passions, but he never addressed his audience as sweethearts.