There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves. Samuel Richardson
Writers don’t write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don’t…If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy. Nikki Giovanni
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. Meryl Streep
I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs. Anita Roddick
Jane Austen writes about these humdrum lives with such empathy that they seem endlessly fascinating. Mark Haddon
I think people relate to the music because I have a sense of empathy, and I think I have a good understanding about relationships, and I talk about them in a real, honest way. John Legend
Rather than seeing dreams as containing hidden messages, see dreams as experiences of empathy. Then use empathy with the dream to reconnect with the experience of dreaming itself. Henry Reed
There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people. Lakhdar Brahimi