Top 55 Empathize Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Empathize Quotes from famous people such as Sendhil Mullainathan, Roger Waters, David Byrne, Michael Redhill, Rumaan Alam, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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It’s hard to get people to empathize with the poor. You can get some people to sympathize with the poor, but to empathize is actually very hard, because most people are not poor. I realized that scarcity gives you a thread.
Sendhil Mullainathan
I’ve only ever written about one thing in my life, which is the fact that we, as human beings, have a responsibility to one another and that it’s important that we empathize with others, that we organize society so that we all become happier and we all get the life we really want.
Roger Waters
So there’s no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn’t necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.
David Byrne
Depression is a surfeit of empathy – a killing empathy – that makes depressives great friends to everyone but themselves. Having a self is a rough business, and depressives can empathize with others who have to deal with it, but not with themselves.
Michael Redhill
If you can’t empathize with other people, then you will never really be able to write well about them.
Rumaan Alam
In art, in music, in everything, I think the more you experience, the more people can empathize with you.
Seo In-guk
Humans aren’t as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
As a parent, I can empathize with how difficult raising children can be. There are challenges, especially within the framework of divorce, when parental guilt can sometimes blur what should be the best decision.
LZ Granderson
Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.
Daisaku Ikeda
The music helped me sympathize with our young generation and also empathize with them. I’d like to create and write more music that represents them.
J-Hope
I think one of my best qualities is my ability to empathize with people. Perhaps it’s because my journey has been so bumpy.
Diane Guerrero
I think that our view of love and family informs our work, the way we empathize with people.
Dustin Lance Black
If you empathize with your fellow humans on stage, you can’t help but do so offstage as well.
Brandon Victor Dixon
The challenge is, how do you take someone who’s supposed to be a villain and make that appealing and lovable? You have to empathize with him and put yourself in his shoes and root for him and want him to have the things he wants.
Rich Moore
I do think that I have a sensitivity to the depictions of maybe all minorities in literature. And I think that the experience of people who look like me is so rarely captured in big, mainstream American fiction that you tend to sort of empathize with any character of color who pops up.
Rumaan Alam
The best way to bring people in and have them empathize with others is through storytelling.
Lee Unkrich
I think Hollywood is an incredible tool to teach people. It brings stories and information to the television screen, to the movie theater screens, that people get to empathize with.
Indya Moore
The best thing about being a good girl on TV is that the audience loves you back instantly. You don’t have to make extra effort to make them empathize with you.
Sriti Jha
You can never empathize with your parents as a teenager. You just think they’re just on another planet.
Heather Langenkamp
Those things that we probably are ashamed of as human beings, certain things that no one would ever talk about – as actors, when we transform into a character, we empathize with those moments.
Viola Davis
The best strategy for making people care about what happens is if they empathize with both sides. If you just have a Villain with a capital V, it becomes very two-dimensional.
Noah Hawley
If you really want to be able to express what goes on with other people, you have to be able to look at them and empathize with them and not judge who they are and what they do.
Lindsay Wagner
I’m very protective of all the vulnerable young kids that go on shoots. I can empathize. I’ve been there.
Edward Enninful
I love mythology and folklore, and I respect the time, money, and opportunity that a film gives to an audience. It’s a chance to empathize, reflect, and learn, so I really want to understand before I sign onto a project: ‘What’s the potential of this thing? What are we seeing and learning? What are we empathizing to?’
Brie Larson
My first job is to entertain, but if, while you’re enjoying, you start to question something you never thought about before or empathize with, relate to, love someone you only thought of as ‘other’ once upon a time – how awesome is that.
Jenji Kohan
You can put things in prose and understand them one way, and then there’s understanding it by knowing how it feels. Things aren’t real until you can feel that, until you can empathize with them. That’s what protagonists do in books.
Rege-Jean Page
If there was one senator who could truly empathize with being tortured in prison, it was John McCain.
Bill Browder
If you aren’t just brought up in your tribe but interact with other people either directly or vicariously, through journalism and literature, you see what life is like from other points of view and are less likely to demonize them or dehumanize others and more likely to empathize with them.
Steven Pinker
I think that most of the young officers I know are leftists and liberals and Democrats. And the reason is this: All of our soldiers, the men that work for us directly, are minorities – blacks or Latinos. And we empathize with them. Our job is to advise them and help them.
Rod Lurie
I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today’s environment. And I know full well that when I’ve been covering campaigns, which I still do, I’ve made my mistakes and have been far from perfect.
Dan Rather
In theory, parents are supposed to empathize with one other – find common cause in the fervent desire to preserve and protect the world for the next generation, and connect on some deep, almost mystical level that those poor souls who have not experienced this kind of all-consuming love cannot possibly comprehend.
Adam Mansbach
My mother can certainly be rough around the edges at ti

My mother can certainly be rough around the edges at times, but she also taught me to have compassion for people who have been wronged. She taught me to empathize with those who have made mistakes.
LZ Granderson
If you come out of the gate with a finger pointed, then you really aren’t opening the door to any sort of resolution to whatever the problem may be. Whether it’s about race or sexual orientation or religion, if you can’t empathize with the opposing party, then you can’t really meet in the middle.
Octavia Spencer
My dad is an economist who does global development research. What he practices is a kind of quantifiable empathy: trying to empathize with systems rather than people.
Leslie Jamison
When I play ‘Grand Theft Auto,’ I’m such a nerdy little law abider because I’ve always had this active imagination in which I sympathize and empathize with things.
Lisa Joy
Audiences want to feel represented, want to be able to empathize with the characters and the stories they are seeing on the screen.
Diego Luna
Miranda’s this girl that everyone’s just laughed at online for years. I want people to empathize with her.
Colleen Ballinger
It’s interesting sometimes when an audience can empathize with a villain.
Jack Gleeson
The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with the characters, they have to visualize the process of concentration involved in making every move.
Conrad Hall
I think the ability to empathize with another person’s experience and go into the trajectory of their journey is challenging.
Dia Mirza
I do think that there are people who are able to connect with and empathize with anyone who is going through something difficult, just naturally. I don’t think it’s a world of effort for everyone.
Mahershala Ali
Instead of telling a story about how great your brand is, try telling a story that shows you completely understand and empathize with your customer and their life.
Lewis Howes
My school of thought with going into a character is that you have to understand where they come from, and you have to empathize with them.
Rose McIver
I empathize with players. In our culture it is all about strategies and interventions to help the individual based on their individual needs. It is not just about supplements or putting painkillers in your mouth. You have to educate yourself about that.
Emma Hayes
I tend to empathize with people, just in general.
Ross Lynch
I really love helping students and helping them empathize with people who lived a really long time ago. That’s one of the highlights of working in fiction.
Deborah Harkness
Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
J. K. Rowling
In my movies, I portray this ‘Everyman’ persona, someone everybody can empathize with. People can identify with a guy like me.
Judge Reinhold
As Black people, we’re very used to empathizing with the world through white people’s eyes, because they’re the protagonists. I know what it’s like to look at the world and empathize with Superman because I spent my whole life doing that.
Rege-Jean Page
I just love actors, and I’ve always loved actors. I empathize with their job. Everyone thinks it’s easy, and it ain’t. To be that vulnerable and brave on camera is tough. The more they reveal themselves, the more we love them, but there’s a lot of truth in what they’re showing.
Paul Haggis