Empathy Loss Quotes

#1. I always wondered what it must be like to lose a twin - if somehow Mary felt it like it was happening to her. If she felt physical pain.

Francesca Lia Block

#2. No one ... can live in this heightened state of reflective receptivity forever. Because this empathy's involuntary, there's terror here. Loss of control, a seepage. Becoming someone else or worse: becoming nothing but the vibratory field between two people.

Chris Kraus

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

Anderson Cooper

#4. Empathy feels these thoughts; your hurt is in my heart, your loss is in my prayers, your sorrow is in my soul, and your tears are in my eyes.

William Arthur Ward

#5. Never say you understand someone's pain if you haven't felt the same, because not only would you sound mocking but also ignorant.

Lolah Runda

#6. A lawyer's empathy for her client deepens when she realizes that she has only seen the last couple of phases of his decline. How hard it must his initial adjustment have been to his loss of freedom?

Ron Suskind

#7. I've had my share, less than so many though, but enough to feel empathy. It's tough and I see it so much on Earth, too much suffering. The loss of free will I find unacceptable - what most of us refer to as rights.

Kristin Bauer Van Straten