41 Quotes About Empathy For Others

Having empathy for others is a key ingredient to having a high emotional intelligence. Here are some great quotes about empathy for others that are encouraging.

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

“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”

“Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.”

“Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?”

“Empathy depends not only on one’s ability to identify someone else’s emotions but also on one’s capacity to put oneself in the other person’s place and to experience an appropriate emotional response.”

“Empathy frequently informs our earliest days with our infants as we try to figure out what they need, how to comfort and satisfy them.”

“Empathy is a powerful behavior of nurturing. When it is given properly, the receiver can feel that the giver really cares about them, and that what they are going through is not trivial.”

“Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and ourself, a kind of attuning and understanding. When empathy is extended, it satisfies our needs and wish for intimacy, it rescues us from our feelings of aloneness.”

“Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.”

“Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.”

“Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.”

“Empathy is about standing in someone else’s shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.”

“Empathy is full presence to what’s alive in the other person at this moment.”

“Empathy is like giving someone a psychological hug.”

“Empathy is putting yourself in another’s shoes to find out what exactly that person is feeling or going through at the given time. It basically refers to being at a common wavelength with someone.”

“Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.”

“Empathy is the crucible of intercultural relations.”

“Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act.”

“Empathy is the lovefire of sweet remembrance and shared understanding.”

“Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.”

“Empathy is the only human superpower – it can shrink distance, cut through social and power hierarchies, transcend differences, and provoke political and social change.”

“Empathy means both understanding others on their own terms and bringing them within the orbit of one’s own experience.”

“Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy.”

“I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.”

“I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.”

“I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.”

“I wouldn’t expect someone who’s been injured to hear my side until they felt that I had fully understood the depth of their pain.”

“If you share in a heart-felt sorrow, you can lighten the load of a friend. Sometimes facing the burden together can mend two broken hearts in the end.”

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

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. ”

“The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.”

“We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.”

“We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.”

“We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity.”

“When a good man is hurt all who would be called good must suffer with him.”

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”

“When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems.”

“Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?”

“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one… just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”

“You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.”

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view — until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”

The nature of empathy brings a lot to your life with relational communication.