False Sympathy Quotes

“Is she unhappy? But he would have laughed at such a mewling question, and he would have been right to. My witchcraft, the island, my lion, all of them sprang from her transformation. There was no honesty in regretting what had given me my life.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“She's the sister of bigotry and the daughter of tyranny; she imposes her own emotions onto others, then falsely calls it 'empathy'.”
― Criss Jami