Empathy quotes

“You know I have nothing but contempt for you. Sitting there year after year listening to miserable people like me tell you how the world does destroy them. Have you ever once felt anything like the pain they feel? All the despair... all the fear? You make your living from their suffering and you don't understand a shred of it. Anyone of us is...” (continue)(continue reading)

Julie Andrews - Stephanie Anderson

“- Lotte Schwartz: For the first time, everything just felt right.
- Craig Schwartz: It's just a phase. It's the thrill of seeing through somebody else's eyes.”
Cameron Diaz - Lotte Schwartz
John Cusack - Craig Schwartz

“- Michael Cruise: You know what I feel like?
- Eric Cruise: A Big Mac?
- Michael Cruise: The man's psychic!”
Jonathan Ward - Michael Cruise
Jade Calegory - Eric Cruise

“Discipline makes the strength of armies. It is necessary that superiors obtain from their subordinates immediate obedience without murmuring. Discipline will be firm but it will also be fatherly. Officers must use psychology when dealing with men.”
Brian Donlevy - Markoff

“If your going through some shit in your life chances are somebody else has gone through the same thing before ya. And they've written about it. Some poet or philosopher has been through the same type of crap, and they've written about it. And when you find that poem or piece of writing. You think bloody hell this bastard has just summed it all...” (continue)(continue reading)
Steven Vidler - The Man

“Empathy requires understanding.”
Judy Davis - Audrey Taylor

“- Edward D. Wood, Jr.: I like to dress in women's clothing.
- Georgie Weiss: You're a fruit?
- Edward D. Wood, Jr.: No, not at all. I love women. Wearing their clothes makes me feel closer to them.”
Johnny Depp - Ed Wood
Mike Starr - Georgie Weiss

“I read somewhere that the reason most relationships break down is that each partner is waiting for the other to fix it. But if you want somebody to stand by you always, you have to be willing to do the same for them, even when they're acting like an idiot.”
Heather Graham - Joline

“Who will believe me? Who knows what it's like to be me?”
Peter Lorre - Hans Beckert

“Those eyes. The way he looked right... right down into me.”
Meg Ryan - Dr. Maggie Rice

“- Bernie Bernbaum: Look in your heart! Look in your heart!
- Tom Reagan: What heart?”
John Turturro - Bernie Bernbaum
Gabriel Byrne - Tom Reagan

“The rainstorm and the river are my brothers, the heron and the otter are my friends, and we are all connected to each other in a circle, in a hoop that never ends!”

Irene Bedard - Pocahontas

“You lost your family? Oh, dear. That's terrible. I lost my family, too. Years ago, I mean... eight brothers. Ten sisters. Three fathers.”

Dom DeLuise - Tiger