Empathy Quote by Dan Wells

“she did understand the corrosive nature of guilt. It could destroy from the inside, worrying at your mind until you submitted.”

— Lisa Hartley

“...what she had been waiting to see on someone else's face was not empathy but the companionship of unmitigated suffering...”

— Sara Foster

“Well, guilt is a bitch, but don't you think if you're thinking it in the first place that it just might be true?”

— J.A. Redmerski

“Guilt was a thief. It would steal your mind, mess with your priorities and would eventually steer you from your original plan. I couldn’t…

— L.J. Shen

“She had inhibited her sympathy, one genuine sympathetic impulse would have ruined her.”

— Iris Murdoch

“And she would weep. When he saw tears rolling down her face, he would forgive her. She was less certain whether she would forgive…

— George R.R. Martin

“But guilt is about as useful as regret, since neither do anything to set things right.”

— Ken Lange

“All the logic in the world could not blunt the pain. Logic could not blunt her terrible sense of personal failure. Only time would…

— Stephen King

“It had been so long since she’d given herself permission to just feel without thinking, to act without discussing the consequences. And yeah, there…

— Leah Braemel

“She nodded. “At first what I thought I wanted was revenge. I kept thinking of how to hurt you, how to cause you pain,…

— Barry Eisler

“Her empathy was like a double-edged razor that allowed her to experience the nethermost of human joys and sorrows. The best and worst of…

— C.J. Anderson

“There was more than one type of guilt. You might do something horrible that you later regretted. But you could also feel guilty for…

— Joseph Delaney