Empathy with abstraction is an intermedial practice that recognizes the vital properties of abstract form across the arts and in everyday life. This chapter explores the lively discussions of empathy in Europe and North America around the turn of the twentieth century and argues that they presage the bodily turn in the humanities a century later. The author focuses on the theories of embodied empathy of British art critic and philosopher Vernon Lee and her partner, the artist Clementina Anstruther-Thomson. Taking up Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s concept of the abstract line, she suggests that “feeling like an abstract line” allows us to feel what we have in common with nonorganic life.