Home / Quotes / Quote by Darrell Hammond

Quote by Darrell Hammond

“On the Monster in the Light: Mental illness is not an airborne virus. Monsters hide in the light. They hide in the light. Once you've identified the perp, now you've got to forgive them, right? So you go to phase two of this, which is two parts. That you sort of began to realize that monsters don't make themselves, and in order to be a monster you have to be a victim first. It's a good place to start. You know that there's nothing that releases you from your perp. Nothing better than a little sympathy for the devil. I had to feel sympathy, really understand how she [Mom] became that way.”

Author

Darrell Hammond

Darrell Hammond is an American comedian and actor, renowned for his impression performances on 'Saturday Night Live'. Born on October 8, 1955, Hammond has been a regular cast member on 'Saturday Night Live' since 1985, where he has impersonated over 150 celebrities, including politicians, movie stars, and athletes. His comedic style is humorous and well-received by audiences. more

“I felt sad, then, for her, and angry at myself. I took that moment, that short time, to mourn, to be sad, to be angry, to feel emotions for her that I never let myself feel for me and mine, because we'd been born to this but she hadn't, and because people who only know suffering from stories are never prepared to find themselves inside one.”

Empathy

Book:Blackfish City

Source: Blackfish City

“When you’re feeling low, you don’t want anyone even to joke that you may be in some kind of astrological strike zone where you’ll be for the next seven years. On a bad day you also don’t need a lot of advice. You just need a little empathy and affirmation.” ~ @ANNELAMOTT”

Helping Support Listening Empathy Presence

Author:Anne Lamott

“[W]hen your politics no longer have room for empathy, things spin into an amoral chaos. Not only the desperate suffer. Who gets hurt and who stays safe becomes hard to predict.”

Politics Power Morality Empathy Safety Chaos Destitution

Author:Luis Alberto Urrea

“Systemizing and empathizing are wholly different kinds of processes. You use one process—empathizing—for making sense of an individual’s behavior, and you use the other—systemizing—for predicting almost everything else. To systemize you need detachment in order to monitor information and track which factors cause information to vary. To empathize you need some degree of attachment in order to recognize that you are interacting with a person, not an object, but a person with feelings, and whose feelings affect your own.”

Empathy Autism Evolutionary Psychology Sex Differences Mental Modules