James A. Baldwin Quotes About Empathy

Quotes about: Empathy

• It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

  James A. Baldwin

  Book, Writing, People

  The New York Times, June 1, 1964.

• You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

  James A. Baldwin

  Pain, Thinking, Empathy

  "Doom and glory of knowing who you are". "LIFE" Magazine, Vol. 54, No. 21, (p. 89), May 24, 1963.

• You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves can we understand them in other people.

  James A. Baldwin

  Pain, Thinking, People

  "Doom and glory of knowing who you are". Jane Howard, Life Magazine, Volume 54, No. 21 (p. 89), May 24, 1963.

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