Empathy Quotes

"The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other."

— Meryl Streep

"I found that the same softness which once made me a target now compelled people to trust me with their stories."

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

"How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us."

— Fred Rogers

"Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul be just another human soul."

— Carl Jung

"If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive."

— Brené Brown

"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him."

— Booker T. Washington

"Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls."

— Wendell Berry

"The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job."

— Tennessee Williams

"So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in"

— Sylvia Plath

"Pity those who don't feel anything at all."

— Sarah J. Maas

"I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization."

— Roger Ebert

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

— Rebecca Solnit

"The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up."

— Mark Twain

"People are not always very tolerant of the tears which they themselves have provoked."

— Marcel Proust

"I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what."

— Lady Gaga