Without Empathy Quotes

#1. We've reached a point where we are not a very empathetic people, and art without empathy is art without an audience. My basic viewpoint is that without art we're alone.

Jamake Highwater

#2. If we have optimism without empathy then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science. We're not really solving problems, we're just working on puzzles.

Bill Gates

#3. You are too sensitive", says the emotionally immature ignorant without empathy.

Robin Sacredfire

#4. Even though I didn't think I'd like empathy it kind of creeps up on you and makes you feel all warm and glowy inside. I don't think I want to go back to life without empathy.

Kathryn Erskine

#5. Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.

Frans De Waal

#6. Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building enduring communities requires empathy, self-sacrifice and a willingness to help others without expecting anything in return.

Ben Parr

#7. Courage gives us a voice and compassion gives us an ear. Without both, there is no opportunity for empathy and connection.

Brene Brown

#8. Some people think that without that spark of empathy we would do nothing, but that's just flat-out wrong. You could feel compassion for somebody without the spark of empathy.

Paul Bloom

#9. Still, this was on the order of a minor miracle, running across someone to whom you can express your feeling so clearly, so completely. Most people go their entire lives without meeting a person like that. It would have been mistake to label this "love". It was more like total empathy.

Haruki Murakami

#10. There really is "no effort without error and shortcoming" and there really is no triumph without vulnerability.

Brene Brown

#11. Yet even without saying, each knew what the other was thinking, and, more acutely, what the other was feeling
this is a further effect of our shared sorrow, this empathy, this mournful telepathy.

John Banville

#12. Allowing a person or thing to leave your life, without further pain is the basis of humanity. Everything else is the reason (theology).

Shannon L. Alder

#13. Not one tear of His child is ever shed without evoking the most heartfelt empathy and compassion of God.

Michael Rydelnik

#14. Lacking in conscience and empathy, they take what they want and do as they please, violating social norms and expectations without guilt or remorse.

Jon Ronson

#15. Help your child see others' emotions as well as experiencing his or her own without imposing your judgment.

Iben Dissing Sandahl

#16. The ability to experience and understand what others feel without confusion between oneself and others.

Jean Decety

#17. Spirituality without hate is a lie. If you can't feel anger, you can't feel love. Empathy without disgust isn't truly empathy. When you become more aware, you become more aware of everything. That makes you more sensitive too - sensitive to cry and sensitive to hate.

Robin Sacredfire

#18. We live by encouragement and die without it
slowly, sadly, and angrily.

Celeste Holm

#19. A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

Daniel Dennett

#20. Those who choose not to empathise enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy.

J.K. Rowling

#21. Empathy is one of our highest human skills and holds families and societies together. Feeling connected to other people is probably the deepest satisfaction we will ever know. How terrible for children who are being brought up without that capacity.

Sue Gerhardt

#22. There comes a time in life that all you need is just someone to listen to you without judging or telling you what you should have done and should do, but simply just listening to you.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#23. You can't have understanding without having empathy, and you can't have empathy without losing money.

Erle Stanley Gardner

#24. Empathy lies in our ability to be present without opinion.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#25. Reducing the economic gap may be impossible without also addressing the gap in empathy.

Daniel Goleman

#26. The next time you wish you could find the right words to say to someone who is hurting, just remember that dogs are a man's best friend without ever speaking a word to them. Simply be present and have sympathy.

Ashly Lorenzana

#27. Without exception, empathy is always appropriate.

Stephen Covey

#28. One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.

Vernor Vinge

#29. It was a Saturday and Granny and Elsa were going to an exhibition about dinosaurs. That was the morning Mum put the Gryffindor scarf in the wash without asking and made Elsa take another scarf - a vomit-green one. Mum knows Elsa hates green. She really lacks empathy sometimes, that woman.

Fredrik Backman

#30. No one can hurt you without teaching a life's lesson. So accept it with love and kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#31. Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations. Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them.

Aberjhani

#32. I think it's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of growing up. It's hard and ugly to know somebody can understand you without even liking you.

Thomas Harris

#33. Empathy requires us to step outside of our own agendas long enough to develop an understanding of the other person's perspective. It can be rightly stated that no relationship will be whole without ongoing displays of empathy.

Les Carter

#34. Too many people are endowed with a feeling of entitlement, but born without God-given empathy.

C. JoyBell C.

#35. Playwriting is all about empathy, getting inside the head of someone who is not you, to think like they think without judging them.

Donald Margulies

#36. Self-awareness - the commendable ability to be yourself without being a nuisance to someone else.

Criss Jami

#37. Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.

Dean Koontz

#38. By peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, without violence, and creatively- a never-ending process

Johan Galtung

#39. I'm determined to disagree with people without being disagreeable. That's part of the empathy. Empathy doesn't just extend to cute little kids. You have to have empathy when you're talking to some guy who doesn't like black people.

Barack Obama

#40. While each of us must walk this path alone, we need not do so without the empathy, the encouragement and the love of others who are travelling, or have travelled, this terrain - or those who having lived life long and deep and can meet us there, with wisdom and compassion.

Meryn G. Callander

#41. She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an invitation to attack.

Dean Koontz

#42. 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

#43. Leaves the body, transcends himself, herself, outside any system of belief. Freedom equals panic because without belief there is no language when you've lost yourself to empathy, a total shut down is the only way back in.

Chris Kraus

#44. The first thing missing if you take a robot as a companion is alterity, the ability to see the world through the eyes of another.5 Without alterity, there can be no empathy.

Sherry Turkle

#45. It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.

Douglas Adams

#46. Love is not without its flaws. The stronger the love, the more it tests you. Compassion and empathy will make true love persist.

Khalil Gibran

#47. Rationality plays a crucial role in decision making, but without the moral compass of emotions and the steady guide of empathy we would just be cold psychopaths.

Nikolaos Dimitriadis

#48. Our ability to offer empathy can allow us to stay vulnerable, defuse potential violence, help us hear the word 'no' without taking it as a rejection, revive lifeless conversation, and even hear the feelings and needs expressed through silence.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#49. 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

#50. Books are at the core of what we are.... without them, we are husks of what we can, and most definitely will be because of our sense of intellect, empathy and perseverance through these hard times..

Jack Bailey

#51. They ran past him without notice, but I paused and stood over the boy. I wanted to feel something--wanted to find some understanding in his actions; some empathy in his upbringing; at least a fragment of sympathy for the secret he carried.

Christopher Scotton

#52. If you can leave a relationship with love, empathy, and compassion, without any thoughts of revenge, hatred, or fear, that is how you let go.

Brian L. Weiss

#53. King and Gandhi had found a way to use aggressive impulses to resist injustice without hurting others. Where did the aggression go? The answer, as King would later tell Poussaint, was this: into the courage needed to resist without fighting back physically...

S. Nassir Ghaemi

#54. Justice without compassion was the destroyer of morality, a slayer blind to empathy.

Steven Erikson

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

Eric Zorn

#56. Pain without cause is a pain we can't trust. We assume it's been chosen or fabricated.

Leslie Jamison

#57. Ironically, torture requires empathy, too, in the sense that one cannot deliberately inflict pain without realizing what is painful.

Frans De Waal