The Empathy Essays Quotes & Sayings

It wasn't likely I would die. Dave didn't know that then. Prayer isn't about likelihood anyway, it's about desire
loving someone enough to get on your knees and ask for her to be saved. When he cried in that chapel, it wasn't empathy
it was something else. His kneeling wasn't a way to feel to my pain but to request that it end. - p19 — Leslie Jamison

Everybody's possibilities solidify round them and become limitations. — A.S. Byatt

The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make. — George Crumb

You really feel an obligation to someone when they're trusting you to do something, and you promise that you'll come through for them. — Jonah Hill

Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

We were friends, somehow. But in the end, somehow, he intended to be a mortal enemy. All the while that he was making the gestures of a close and precious friend he was fattening my soul in a coop till it was ready for killing — Saul Bellow

Kathy Burgess describes [Hillary] Clinton as fun and an all-around great person but admits it doesn't come through well. — Tamara Keith

You wouldn't maintain a house like that' you'd feet it and water it. You'd have to give it nourishment and love it to keep it alive and healthy. — Anne Rivers Siddons

At least she's the president of something, which is more than I can say. — Bob Dole

Yes, that's the bore of comfort," said Lord Warburton. "We only know when we're uncomfortable. — Henry James

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger. — Barbara Kingsolver