Tom Sturridge Quotes

I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.

I tend to absorb a lot of what other people are feeling.

I'm a very sensitive person by nature. Things move me very easily, like music or videos on Facebook, and I feel for people.

I care a lot; I'm very sensitive.

I have a lot of compassion for human beings in life experiences, so I allow myself to feel what these characters are feeling and don't have a problem accepting that.

I feel like I'm kind of a bit of a sponge in a way. Like, if people around me are going through things, I find it very hard not to be empathetic.

I am a pretty emotional person. Any act of kindness or unkindness moves me. When I see a romantic couple sitting by the beach, it moves me. I don't break down or crack under pressure, but I am just sensitive.

People aren't very good at other people's pain.

It doesn't hurt to show some empathy.

The irony is that I'm actually a very empathetic person, but I don't believe in sympathy at all.

I am a tender-hearted person, and I feel everything to the ninth degree.

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.

I'm a very sensitive person.

I am surprisingly very sensitive.

I feel and take in people's energy. Sometimes, I feel the pain of other people.

I am the type of person that likes to put myself in someone's shoes to 'get' it.

I know what it's like to feel distraught as I am an incredibly sensitive guy and feel for anything and everyone in pain, particularly my own sister.

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.

We can empathize as deeply as we can empathize.

Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.

Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way - I don't think that's exploitive.

How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?

The thing that enchants me the most is the ability women have to feel other people's pain. The total empathy that women have is extraordinary.

I'm an emotional guy.