Empathy-for-others Quote by Anonymous

“But rape was not what one did to women. Rape was what one felt when one's back was against the wall and one had…

— Richard Wright

“I don’t look at my victims at the moment of his or her death. The reason for that is that everyone, probably Adolf Hitler…

— Destiny Booze

“Gods work! Silence so great it hurts your ears, colour so bright it hurts your staring eyes. A vicious ruined class of man could…

— Sebastian Barry

“The body is not the only target of rape. Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Tragedy allowed the audience to experience intense, sometimes disturbing emotions that could not be experienced in real life without terrible cost.”

— Barry B. Powell

“You are a most effective killer, Michel. Is it true you wept like a child when they killed your sister? That you cried out…

— P.A. Minyard

“The world was a grand confusion. Finally, when I was drunk, and my mind couldn’t do what I wanted it to do, I went…

— Pete Hamill

“While trauma keeps us dumbfounded, the path out of it is paved with words, carefully assembled, piece by piece, until the whole story can…

— Bessel A. van der Kolk

“started feeling real sorry for everybody, even though they were screaming and acting silly. I thought about how much work it was to have…

— David Sedaris

“I was crying for the little girl I had been, who had withstood terrifying nightmares of death and blood and war and maiming. And…

— Anonymous

“I will admit it sometimes felt strange to me to make the confession to someone and later catch them laughing, or flirting, or eating…

— Jennifer Dubois

“Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that the reader…

— Kurt Vonnegut