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Empathy has some unfortunate features - it is parochial, narrow-minded, and innumerate. We're often at our best when we're smart enough not to rely on it.

I have empathy; I am humane. I understand human misery.

I traffic in empathy. I try to be vulnerable with people so they can be vulnerable back. I've always been searching for empathy in other people. It's when I feel most not alone.

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.

I've been fascinated by the idea that evil is the absence of empathy.

I am actually incredibly contented and jolly. But, and I have no idea why this is, I have a really strong empathy with all kinds of warped and destructive modes of thinking. I don't know why, but those things co-exist.

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.