Susan Sontag Quotes

I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.

The idea of faking empathy to take a step forward to understanding - it's a really powerful idea.

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

The greatest gift given to man by God - is the ability to empathize.

Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.

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.

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.

It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.

It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.

All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being.

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

It doesn't hurt to show some empathy.

The irony is that I'm actually a very empathetic person, but I don't believe in sympathy at all.

I think when you're empathetic, you're putting yourself in somebody else's shoes, right? It's not about you.

What separates humans from other animals is our empathy. With the possible exception of bonobos, we are the most empathetic animal on the planet.

If you empathize with your fellow humans on stage, you can't help but do so offstage as well.

We think empathy is innate, but it's not. It's a muscle you're working.

If you can understand, you can feel compassion.

Stories teach us empathy. They reveal to us ourselves in the skins of others.

It's hard to put yourself in someone else's head.

It's not a very nice thing to not have empathy. I would like to have empathy. In the past I haven't been very empathetic with other people.

Good characters don't believe they're bad. As long as you as an actor believe in them and try to understand them, it's not hard to have empathy and sympathy.

I am truly passionate and concerned about the lack of empathy that people show towards one another.

...he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke-the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love.