Empathy Quotes

"If you can't feel my pain, dat sh*t wasn't 4 u anyway."

- Rod Wave

"If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?"

- William Shakespeare

"My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break."

- William Shakespeare

"People ignore design that ignores people."

- Frank Chimero

"Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task, therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise."

- Adolf Loos

"There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular; to look like it is changing the world. I don't care how a building looks if it means something, not to architects, but to the people who use it."

- David Chipperfield

"Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche."

- David Adjaye

"I am an eyewitness to the ways in which people relate to themselves and to each other, and my work is a way of scooping and ladling that experience."

- Richard Neutra

"Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect’s task, therefore, is to make those sentiments precise."

- Adolf Loos

"Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways."

- Sigmund Freud

"The opposite of anger is not calmness, it’s empathy."

- Mehmet Oz

"express anger requires full consciousness of our need […] Anger, however, co-opts our energy by directing it toward punishing people rather than meeting our needs. Instead of engaging in “righteous indignation,” I recommend connecting empathically with our own needs or those of others."

- Marshall Rosenberg

"Seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another."

- Alfred Adler

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

- Erich Fromm

"When a person realizes he has been deeply heard, his eyes moisten. I think in some real sense he is weeping for joy. It is as though he were saying, "Thank God, somebody heard me. Someone knows what it's like to be me."

- Carl Rogers

"When the other person is hurting, confused, troubled, anxious, alienated, terrified; or when he or she is doubtful of self-worth, uncertain as to identity, then understanding is called for. The gentle and sensitive companionship of an empathic stance… provides illumination and healing. In such situations deep understanding is, I believe, the most precious gift one can give to another."

- Carl Rogers

"To be with another in this [empathic] way means that for the time being, you lay aside your own views and values in order to enter another's world without prejudice. In some sense it means that you lay aside your self; this can only be done by persons who are secure enough in themselves that they know they will not get lost in what may turn out to be the strange or bizarre world of the other, and that they can comfortably return to their own world when they wish."

- Carl Rogers

"Perhaps this description makes clear that being empathic is a complex, demanding, and strong - yet subtle and gentle - way of being."

- Carl Rogers

"The kind of caring that the client-centered therapist desires to achieve is a gullible caring, in which clients are accepted as they say they are, not with a lurking suspicion in the therapist's mind that they may, in fact, be otherwise. This attitude is not stupidity on the therapist's part; it is the kind of attitude that is most likely to lead to trust."

- Carl Rogers

"True empathy is always free of any evaluative or diagnostic quality. This comes across to the recipient with some surprise. "If I am not being judged, perhaps I am not so evil or abnormal as I have thought."

- Carl Rogers

"Feeling heard and understood allows children to release the feelings, let go, and move on."

- Janet Lansbury

"I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, ‘Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse."

- Vera Farmiga

"My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience."

- Carolyn Mackler

"A mother knows what her child's gone through, even if she didn't see it herself."

- Pramoedya Ananta Toer

"Gee. He looks blue."

- Timon

"Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?"

- William Blake

"I care. I care a lot. It's kinda my thing."

"Emotions create relatability"

"All bad behavior is an unskilled expression of an unmet need."

"When I choose to imagine someone’s pain/perspective I lose my appetite for anger."