Empathy Quotes Quotes

“You will never truly understand other people until you learn to
see through their eyes,
listen through their ears
and feel with their hearts.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“Be kind to all mankind.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“Orang yang merasa dirinya paling benar dan paling penting, tidak akan pernah bisa berempati terhadap orang lain.

Yang akan dilakukannya adalah justru mengambil hak orang lain.”
― Sylvia L'Namira

“Forgiveness is a profound act of personal growth and healing, rooted in genuine empathy and a desire to let go of resentment. It is a deeply individual journey that cannot be forced or expected as an obligation.”
― Sanjeev Himachali

“Whatever you’re reading and whatever you're planning to write, ensure that you’ll cultivate peace and empathy.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Empathy is the unseen fabric that weaves success and compassion together, transforming not just jobs but lives.”
― Enamul Haque

“Who can say where anything truly begins? The cloud, the raindrop, the original speck of dust around which water collects? We can only ever locate the middle when we get to the end. And then, at the absolute end, what’s the point in finding the middle, or even the beginning?”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“No man is worth more than another; no matter where he is from." -Chiron, Song of Achilles”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“In short, empathy is about putting others before, while denying yourself entry; even of heaven.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“You don't have to have shared a placenta with someone to sense their pain. Some would say that empathy is what makes us human. But I think empathy was here, an intuition. The thrumming awareness that we are all connected to the smallest speck, the most distant stars, by the great umbilicus of the solar system, the orbits tossing and tearing us with the force of the tides. When we pay attention to things like parasites and the moon, we are paying attention to the fact that we are citizens of the universe. Most of being human is an effort to forget.”
― Eleanor Henderson, Everything I Have Is Yours: A Marriage

“Even when you have experienced something similar and can use this to get into another person's head, resist the urge to tell someone, “I know just how you feel." We shouldn’t presume that our experiences are an exact duplicate of those of another person.”
― Adam Gerace

“Self-reflection helps us walk a mile in another’s shoes.”
― Adam Gerace

“Empathy and compassion require a good understanding of self and other boundaries, acute awareness of the inherent worth, value and uniqueness of the other person, and understanding of the shared humanity between oneself and the recipient of one’s concern and care.”
― Adam Gerace

“As we forge forward in the pursuit of progress, let us not forget the shared rights of all beings to inhabit this Earth, tread the paths of compassion and empathy, seeking ways to coexist harmoniously, embracing the notion that every creature, from the mightiest to the humblest, deserves their place under the sun.”
― Rove Monteux, Roadkill Horrors

“If you're only being kind when you find it convenient, that isn't consideration or compassion for others. There are people who need that compassion, even when you don't find it convenient.”
― Scylla Grand

“If everyone and everything living in the world can manage to look at the world through the eyes of everyone else and everything else, the world can truly become a beautiful place! Look at the world through the eyes of a deer, look at it through the eyes of a Christian, look at it through the eyes of a Muslim, look at it through the eyes of a Jew, look at it through the eyes of a flower or an insect! Abandon yourself, enter the minds of others and look at the world from there, understand everyone and everything, and find a solution accordingly!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Ears attuned, hearts engaged—listening unlocks the doors to empathy, compassion, and profound connections.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“A person who feels others' pain understands everything that needs to be understood.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“In a world obsessed with status, let our compassion and empathy define us.”
― Henry Johnson Jr

“By stepping in your shoes, I get a sense of how you feel.”
― Marion Bekoe

“In the intricate ballroom of human interaction, empathy, and narcissism often find themselves locked in a complex, albeit toxic, waltz. Empaths, with their generous hearts and boundless capacity for understanding, are irresistibly drawn to the magnetic charm of narcissists. It’s an attraction as old as time itself, akin to moths flitting towards a flame – a flame that promises warmth but often delivers nothing but singed wings and regret.”
― Life is Positive

“No matter how educated, talented, rich, or cool you think you are, it’s how you treat people that define you in the end. Your true character isn’t measured by your degrees, your intelligence, your bank account, or your style—it’s revealed in the way you interact with others. Kindness, respect, and empathy are the real markers of greatness. You can have all the success, but in the end, it’s not your resume or your wardrobe that people remember—it’s the way you made them feel.”
― Life is Positive

“A Rose for Empathy

My pelvic girdle remained whole and intact, thank God.
What a grace, me still qualifying as a higher vertebrate in this ordered peck.
My paralysis diagnosed only from the legs down.
The drunk driver and I had arrived at the same hospital at the same time.
He in worse shape than me.
I witnessed his violent death in that very moment before being rushed to surgery.
My sentence was mere paralysis.
And my largest sexual organ, the skin, and my most important, the brain, remained whole enough, if not intact.”
― Miles Garrett

“Empathy isn’t just a byproduct of evolution; it’s humanity’s superpower. It enables us to form cohesive groups, collaborating in ways that make the whole greater than the sum of its parts. Without empathy and mutual understanding, civilizations as we know them wouldn’t exist.”
― Will Raywood, Trust Your Story: Master Storytelling and Build a Successful Creative Writing Career

“You cannot nourish someone who has already been fed with something they believe surpasses what you offer.”
― Eduvie Donald

“You may not have lived someone else's worst moment, but you've lived your own.”
― Amanda Knox

“What happens when water gets into a crack and it freezes?"

"It expands," I said. "Makes the crack bigger".

"Unhealed trauma is a crack. And all the little hard things that trickle into it that would have rolled off someone else, settle. Then when life get cold, that crack gets bigger, longer, deeper. It makes new breaks. You don't know how broken she was or what she was trying to do to fill those cracks. Being broken is not an excuse for bad behavior, you still have to make good choices and do the right thing. But it can be the reason. And sometimes understanding the reason can be what helps you heal.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

“Compassion has a time and place. Excessive empathy eradicates common sense and removes accountability.”
― Sasha Laghonh

“The main difference between Nazis and normal people is the total lack of empathy for others.

Nazi propaganda brainwashes people to believe others are inferior, subhuman, evil, and not worthy of empathy.

This is the necessary final step before brainwashed Nazis gleefully mass-murder others.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America

“Then the first of them touched his smooth, silvery flank and he gave a trembling sigh of pain. A ripple ran down his hide. Not the quick flesh movement of ridding himself of a fly, but a completely alien, unnatural tremor, containing in its swiftness all the agony and loss of eternities. A sigh went out from Paul’s unicorn, though he had not uttered it.”
― Harlan Ellison, Deathbird Stories