"Alas! it is a fearful thingTo feel..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
Alas! it is a fearful thingTo feel another's guilt!
More by Oscar Wilde
“With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.”
“For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.”
“Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.”
More on Guilt
“I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Every time I see that glass I think of you trying to clean your conscience with a toothbrush.”
“I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.”
“In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.”
More on Empathy
“For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.”
“I tried to empty myself and let the spirit of Sethe inhabit me.”
“cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a natural tendency that is very useful to morality in relation to other human beings is weakened.”