32 Movie Quotes about Empathy (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jun 29, 2025

Memorable quotes about empathy, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Since it's impossible in this world we live in to empathize with others, we can always empathize with ourselves.

Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho

2 If there's any kind of magic in this world, it must be in the attempt of understanding someone, sharing something.

Julie Delpy as Céline in Before Sunrise

3 The time to make up your mind about people... is never.

Katharine Hepburn as Tracy Lord in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

4 They just want to see a little misery out there so they can feel a little better, maybe. They're entitled to that.

Gig Young as Rocky Gravo in They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

5 It wasn't personal. -What is that supposed to mean? I'm so sick of that. All that means is that it wasn't personal to you. But it was personal to me. It's personal to a lot of people.

Meg Ryan as Kathleen Kelly in You've Got Mail

6 I'm willing to empty my cup in order to taste your tea.

James Franciscus as Mike Longstreet in Longstreet

7 Why? See, if you love someone, you don't want them to suffer. You can't bear it. You want to take their suffering onto yourself. Even I feel like that. Why doesn't God?

Anthony Hopkins as C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands

8 You're not just sayin' that to mend our broken hearts, are ya? Well, are ya?

Jim Cummings as Tigger in A Very Merry Pooh Year

9 We must try to understand other people more. -Understand cruelty and weakness? -Even that.

Alec Guinness as Marcus Aurelius in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

10 Learn to pity. Learn to have compassion. For yourself, too. Pity and compassion to yourself.

Alec Guinness as Marcus Aurelius in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

32 Movie Quotes about Empathy (+ Sound Clips)

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