Charles Bronson Quotes

What kind of man would I have been if I had not been there to help her? I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached.

Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.

Someone feeling wronged is like someone feeling thirsty. Don’t tell them they aren’t. Sit with them and have a drink.

We can empathize as deeply as we can empathize.

I could only try to comfort the women that I came face-to-face with. I was really moved by how much they wanted to talk, how much they needed to be comforted, and how happy they were that we were there.

Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

'Waterfalls' spoke to so many people at a time where people needed to feel like somebody was on their side.

Sympathy relies on a common experience. If you're clumsy, you might have sympathy for others who tend to bump into things. Empathy, on the other hand, is the ability to understand another person's feelings even if you've never experienced them yourself.

What's interesting to me is that people engage survivors from a place of pity all the time - a place of sympathy.

If you can understand, you can feel compassion.

To be truly empathetic, we have to acknowledge that we're all human, we're all flawed, and that life can be difficult.

There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.

Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.

Sympathy is a sweet thing.

Empathy doesn't require that we have the exact same experiences as the person sharing their story with us...Empathy is connecting with the emotion that someone is experiencing, not the event or the circumstance.

consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.

I think when you've gone through a betrayal in life then when somebody's been betrayed you can talk to the person about it. If your husband's been unfaithful to you, you know what that's like, you know how that feels. You can share true empathy with someone.

I traffic in empathy. I try to be vulnerable with people so they can be vulnerable back. I've always been searching for empathy in other people. It's when I feel most not alone.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

None knows the weight of another's burden.

You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy.

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

There's no text that can replace a loving touch when someone we love is hurting.

A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.