Empathy Quotes

“You can't be a human being and not have feelings.”

“My advice is, do not try to inhabit another person's soul.”

“They were untouchable, and I had to touch them with my camera.”

“Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.”

“To know a man, you must know his circumstances.”

“You can't fake caring. It's either in your heart or it's not.”

“Being heard and understood is one of the greatest desires of the human heart.”

“The man who has seen a woman in her first labour will never forget it.”

“She had this ability to connect with people on an emotional level.”

“I'm a former mayor, I know that being a cop is not an easy job.”

“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”

“Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.”

“It is not against a body of uninterpreted data, radically thinned descriptions, that we must measure the cogency of our explications, but against the power of the scientific imagination to bring us into touch with the lives of strangers.”

“In times of drought, shed tears of sympathy.”

“Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell.”

“Bot quhar paltry is, is pete.”

“Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.”

“I've always been an empath.”

“You see the suffering of the victims' families, and you see the suffering of the perpetrator's family. It is a cycle of violence.”

“I have tried to emphasize our kinship with the animals by showing that they are creatures with wants and feelings differing in degree only from our own.”