I never felt like that before. Maybe it could be depression, like you get. I can understand how you suffer now when you're depressed; I always thought you liked it and I thought you could have snapped yourself out any time, if not alone then by means of the mood organ. But when you get that depressed you don't care. Apathy, because you've lost a sense of worth. It doesn't matter whether you feel better because you have no worth.
Philip K. DickTags: empathy self-worth depression
We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
Dietrich BonhoefferTags: kindness compassion empathy suffering understanding-others
No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care
Theodore RooseveltIt's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain.
Pat BarkerThe use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.
Ursula K. Le GuinAll novels . . . are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being, a character, you are automatically confronted by the question: what is the self? How can it be grasped?
Milan KunderaTags: empathy on-fiction fiction
It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
Nathaniel HawthorneTags: empathy diversity different-perspectives expanding-boundaries interests white-chicks
As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.
Edith WhartonTags: love compassion empathy
Humans have long since possessed the tools for crafting a better world. Where love, compassion, altruism and justice have failed, genetic manipulation will not succeed.
Gina MarantoTags: love compassion empathy
I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind.
Sue MillerTags: empathy desperation unkindness
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