Paul Bloom Quotes

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

I feel like there is a real lack of empathy - not just in American society, it's definitely happening in Britain as well - and it's heartbreaking that people can see something and not feel it.

Seeing other people in pain causes me pain.

If people don't hold grudges, it means they just don't care what people do.

It's fashionable to be indifferent to other people's suffering

It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world.

Pity is the feeling of well-intentioned people who are unable to act.

Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.

Some people think that without that spark of empathy we would do nothing, but that's just flat-out wrong. You could feel compassion for somebody without the spark of empathy.

It's hard to pull apart empathy from compassion. What is really clear is that we innately care for other people at least to some extent.

Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it

Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers.

CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. When Zeno was told that one of his enemies was no more he was observed to be deeply moved. "What!" said one of his disciples, "you weep at the death of an enemy?" "Ah, 'tis true," replied the great Stoic; "but you should see me smile at the death of a friend.".

The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humour, curiosity, and self-importance.

I think my first big heartbreak made me more compassionate about other people's heartaches. It enabled me to feel more for others when they are in moments of pain.

We must have friendship for all; we must be merciful toward those that are in misery; when people are happy, we ought to be happy; and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.

Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love.

Did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones and pray for the ones who don't know? Did you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble, and sob for the ones left below?

What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her?