No Empathy Quotes

I don't think of compassion as sympathy but rather as empathy. An understanding of how people are feeling, which often translates into action.

Rather than seeing dreams as containing hidden messages, see dreams as experiences of empathy. Then use empathy with the dream to reconnect with the experience of dreaming itself.

None of my clients are criminals, but to a much lighter degree that's what goes on. I hear the story, and I hear it with the level of detail that breeds empathy.

In terms of essays, I would say Oliver Sacks. His breadth of hard knowledge and imagination and empathy seems to constitute the perfect mind to me.

Any disease support community is a place of deep bonds and empathy, and there are thousands if not tens of thousands of them.

If your moon sign is in Leo, you have a lot of empathy for Leos. You empathize with their approach and their aims and their aura.

I fear that we are beginning to design ourselves to suit digital models of us, and I worry about a leaching of empathy and humanity in that process.

Writing fiction, like reading fiction, is a practice in empathy.

We were awash in tiny attentions. Small gestures, words, empathies thought to be extinct came to life... We discovered the color of each other's eyes.

There is a real comfort with the position of the victim, which can either result in true empathy or deep paranoia.

I think people relate to the music because I have a sense of empathy, and I think I have a good understanding about relationships, and I talk about them in a real, honest way

Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy. There is no better use of a life than to be attentive to such needs.

The Lord is well aware of our mortality. He knows our weaknesses. He understands the challenges of our everyday lives. He has great empathy for the temptations of earthly appetites and passions.

Kindness manifests in a lot of ways, such as acts of compassion, helpfulness, empathy, forgiveness, and caring. These gestures kindle and ignite feelings of love.

Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.

When you write, you take the ball and you hold it up to the light and you turn it slowly, and let people draw their own conclusions. And try to bring empathy to all sides of the equation.

The problem of empathy is pretty universal, and pretty much breaks down across America. People can't feel beyond their drawn borders. And skin color and culture have a lot to do with that.

Animals should have rights and should be treated with compassion and empathy; we are their caretakers. If you don't have it in your heart to help them, then just leave them alone and do no harm.

I think that every therapist that I know, including my dad and my sister, have their own issues. But that empathy is what makes them good at their job.

I still want to get some empathy from the audience, even though she's pathetic.

You can be sad for others but you don't have to take on their pain.

Empathy is cloaked in our actions - as in, we might be experiencing empathy but not realize it's empathy.

Learning the edges or limits or sources of friction in empathy was one of the big issues for me.

I don't want any woman to think that I don't have empathy and deep care for all women's body issues. I just want to make sure that we don't only focus on the most palatable ones.

Empathy in broadest sense refers to the reactions of one individual to the observed experiences of another

Jane Austen writes about these humdrum lives with such empathy that they seem endlessly fascinating

Empathy: Emptying our mind and listening with our whole being

Tragically, one of the rarest commodities in our culture is empathy. People are hungry for empathy, They don't know how to ask for it.

Empathy allows us to re-perceive our world in a new way and move forward.

With empathy we don't direct, we follow. Don't just do something, be there.

Postpone result/solution thinking until later; it's through connection that solutions materialize - empathy before education.

The more we empathize with the other party, the safer we feel.

We give empathy to others for our own benefit.

A respectful understanding of another's experience.

If the other persons behavior is not in harmony with my own needs, the more I empathize with them and their needs, the more likely I am to get me own needs met.

Time and again, people transcend the paralyzing effects of psychological pain when they have sufficient contact with someone who can hear them empathically.

Staying with empathy we allow speakers to touch deeper levels of themselves.

We need to receive empathy to give empathy.

Self-empathy in NVC means checking in with your own feelings and needs.

There is no small act of kindness.

The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response.

I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.

My worst vice is also my best vice. It's my empathy and my love for people-it can wear me out. I rarely can turn a person in need down or because I love people, I love energy.

Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.

My empathy for poor people comes from having been one of them for so long, from knowing that their humanity is more complex and that the truths of their suffering have to be told honestly.

I'm not even sure if empathy is an act, it could be a disposition.

The Curious Incident brims with imagination, empathy, and vision — plus it's a lot of fun to read.

Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity.

I think I have a lot of empathy for animals and nature in general. Those things just make me comfortable. I grew up in the middle of nowhere, around a lot of animals. I feel for them.

Mirror neurons make human empathy possible.