Empathy Quotes

"Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy."

- Franz Schubert

"When you're happy, you enjoy the music, but when you're sad, you understand the lyrics."

- Frank Ocean

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

- Brené Brown

"2Pac cares if don't nobody else care."

- Tupac Shakur

"Everyone has a story or a struggle that will break your heart. And if we’re really paying attention, most people have a story that will bring us to our knees."

- Brené Brown

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

- Brené Brown

"Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help."

- Brené Brown

"Everyone has a story or a struggle that will break your heart. And, if we’re really paying attention, most people have a story that will bring us to our knees."

- Brené Brown

"The opposite of scarcity is not abundance; the opposite of scarcity is simply enough. Empathy is not finite, and compassion is not a pizza with eight slices. When you practice empathy and compassion with someone, there is not less of these qualities to go around. There’s more. Love is the last thing we need to ration in this world."

- Brené Brown

"Don’t look away. Don’t look down. Don’t pretend not to see hurt. Look people in the eye. Even when their pain is overwhelming. And when you’re in pain, find the people who can look you in the eye. We need to know we’re not alone—especially when we’re hurting."

- Brené Brown

"Before you ignore another homeless person on the street, just remember that that could be someone’s father or someone’s mother and they have a story."

- Syesha Mercado

"Most people never really sat down and got to know a homeless person, but every homeless person is just a real person that was created by God and it is the same kind of different as us; they just have a different story."

- Ron Hall

"If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you’re fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family."

- Susan Sarandon

"Never complain that a patient wasn’t having an emergency (when they genuinely felt that they were) just because you knew how to deal with their medical problem… this may appear like a routine case for you, but to them, it may have been the greatest emergency they have ever faced in their lives."

- Paramedic – Metropolitan Ambulance Service Victoria

"Listen to understand, not to respond."

- Thomas Griffin

"It takes a great man to be a good listener."

- Calvin Coolidge

"Just because I don't express myself in the same way as you do, doesn't mean I don't have feelings too."

- Liane Holliday Willey

"There's a story behind every person, a reason why they are the way they are. So, think about that before you judge someone."

- J. Cole

"Whenever you conceptualize social justice struggles, you will always defeat your own purposes if you cannot imagine the people around whom you are struggling as equal partners."

- Angela Davis

"Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"You know, when one is that sad, one can get to love the sunset."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us."

- Earl Nightingale

"When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don’t get to decide that you didn’t."

- Louis C. K.

"I think empathy is romantic. I think humor is romantic. Kindness is romantic. I think those kind of gestures of caring and love are romantic."

- Michael Bublé

"When you choose to see the good in others, you end up finding the good in yourself."

"Massage therapists listen with their hands and their hearts."

"The sky is a reminder that we are all capable of empathy."