No Empathy Quotes

one does not remember one’s own pain. It is the suffering of others that undoes us

Empathy zooms you in on an individual and, as a result, it's narrow, it's innumerate, it's racist, it's very biased.

I had an empathy for prisoners and did concerts for them back when I thought that it would make a difference - you know? - that they really were there to be rehabilitated.

We know the speaker has received adequate empathy when a. we sense a release of tension, or b. the flow of words comes to a halt.

Criticizing others is a dangerous thing, not so much because you may make mistakes about them, but because you may be revealing the truth about yourself.

We all suffer alone in the real world; true empathy's impossible.

Most of my work is comedy; it's meant to inspire empathy in people and help them find joy.

To empathize means to share, to experience the feelings of another person.

I will only take something or agree to do something that I feel like I understand, and inherent in understanding is empathy.

Empathy is the antidote to shame.

I think understanding or comprehension is probably the strongest emotion that you feel, or at least some kind of empathy.

I think empathy's a terrible danger for a writer.

The ability to experience and understand what others feel without confusion between oneself and others.

It is people who go through suffering that have an empathy for the suffering of others.

True compassion comes from free will by drawing empathy from within.

Go looking for the best in people and you'll be amazed at how much talent, ingenuity, empathy and good you will find.

I like people who possess either deep mastery or deep empathy, but not as much as I like those who possess both.

When we can really put ourselves in the shoes of the other, when we can reach new depths of empathy, then we can be effective ambassadors of peace.

The ability to infer the specific content of another person's thoughts and feelings.

Empathy is even better than talking in one language

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

But the moods could be contagious. He didn't need one right now.

I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'

You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.

Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.

Jealousy knows neither morality nor empathy.

He said that he was sure you would be amendable to this course of action." April paused, eyes widening, before she said indignantly, "I believe he may have lied to me!

When people say they are happy for you it may mean they are sad for themselves.

We make ourselves large or small, here or there, in our empathies.

I needed people to deliver my feelings back to me in a form that was legible. Which is a superlative kind of empathy to seek, or to supply: an empathy that rearticulates more clearly what it's shown.

But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.

No matter what the situation may be, I still take pleasure in witnessing the joy of others.

Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.

If bullies actually believe that somebody loves them and believes in them, they will love themselves, they will become better people, and many will even become saviors to the bullied.

I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.

How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all.

History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own.

One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough.

...to make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger.

I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind.

Looking at various means of developing compassion, I think empathy is an important factor: the ability to appreciate others' suffering.

Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all.

I don't love the word "quirky." I think it's a word that's a catchall. It's a word that doesn't stand in empathy with the person, it stands in judgment of them. It's a very externalized word.

I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.

Fiction is empathy technology.

My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.

I also grew to love Nancy Reagan in a certain way. I learned more - certainly I learned more bad stuff that I had known about in greater detail, but I also got a lot of empathy.

Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.

None of us can choose where we shall love.

I know Bret Easton Ellis has said he has some amount of empathy for every character he has written about, though, so maybe I am similar to him in terms of that. I'm not sure what he thinks exactly.