Top 36 Sympathy Vs Empathy Quotes
#1. Sometimes all you can do is hug a friend tightly and wish that their pain could be transferred by touch to your own emotional hard drive.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#2. It is very difficult for a man to differentiate between empathy and sympathy. He hates to be pitied.
John Gray
#3. No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#4. Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.
Michael Gove
#5. Sympathy is a characteristic trait of politicians and empathy an emotion of the masses.
Amit Abraham
#6. If you truly have compassion in your heart, show it by keeping your doubts to yourself and sharing your hope with those who love change!
Israelmore Ayivor
#8. I believe that lack of empathy is behind many problems, and I believe that it's disrupting our society. In Great Britain, there is a steady decline in the willingness to be truly generous, and by that I don't mean monetary generosity, but friendship and sympathy for others.
J.K. Rowling
#10. Once you take the time to consider the other person's perspective, you will become sympathetic to his feel ins and ideas. You will be able to authentically and honestly say, I don't blame you for feeling as you do. If I were in your position, I would feel just as you do.
Dale Carnegie
#11. Walk with me for a while, my friend - you in my shoes, I in yours - and then let us talk.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#12. Most survivors are cope-aholics, people who cope with whatever is thrown at them without reliance on others. They do not seek sympathy for their pain and feel undeserving if it is offered. They are especially adverse to sympathy from others.
Renee Fredrickson
#13. Because whenever a woman kills her child, every other mother - at least, every one who's honest with herself - has a flash of sympathy. Not empathy. They don't want to have done it, cannot imagine doing it. But they know.
Laura Lippman
#14. None of us can choose where we shall love...
Susan Kay
#15. I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him ... The land of tears is so mysterious.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#16. Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to the biggest dance of the year. Empathy is what I do to you when you judge me. Envy is having pity on yourself. Can you discern the rest for yourself?
Mahatma Gandhi
#17. Sympathy is to love thy neighbor. Empathy is to leave her alone.
Anthony Marais
#18. Digital age of business and world shall move up from apathy, to sympathy, to empathy.
Pearl Zhu
#19. Empathy is walking a mile in somebody else's moccasins. Sympathy is being sorry their feet hurt.
Rebecca O'Donnell
#20. The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.
Criss Jami
#21. If you don't love yourself, it makes you incapable of knowing how to love another person.
Ellen J. Barrier
#22. We must be able to love other people or forever endure the stain of disgraceful loneliness. By recognizing and expressing empathy for other people, we come to accept our own fallibility.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#23. When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.
Criss Jami
#24. It is characteristic to believe that those in need are given to, that the squeaky hinge is the one that gets the oil, but in the realm of emotions this is not so. It is the person who does not solicit liking and love, admiration and respect, sympathy and empathy to whom they are freely given.
Jo Coudert
#25. It's frustrating when our best efforts to help people fail. But if we could see life through their weary eyes and experience their trials with the same frayed emotions, we might understand why.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#26. For those constantly full of joy, they sometimes feel a little guilty for always feeling so good. That guilt is compassion: it flies in with an attempt to share one's joy with others who do not have it.
Criss Jami
#27. Sympathy was to respect the feelings of another. Empathy was to actually share those feelings.
Stephen King
#28. You cannot fully understand a person's need until you have endured the same need. As hard as you may try to predict and comprehend their situation and suffering, I guarantee you'll fall short until you've been there.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#29. Sympathy is imagining the pain. Empathy is having suffered through it first.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#30. I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.
Edward Norton
#32. As a kid my heart would break for the villains.
Criss Jami
#33. Sorry' isn't a synonym for 'guilty.' It's a way to say you're listening.
Martina Boone
#34. Is it so hard to offer your help and sympathy to somebody in grief? It takes a little to make one step, but, in an inexplicable manner, it stretches into thousands of kilometers. All of us are full of empathy and consolation but always prefer to express it from a distance.
Igor Eliseev
#35. An empath is capable of taking on the grief of another in order to lessen their suffering. In order to not be consumed with pain, an empath should have an outlet for that pain lest they lose themselves in feeling for others.
Donna Lynn Hope
#36. He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or two, during which time his face, his eyes, his look, told of more sympathy than could be put into words.
Elizabeth Gaskell
