Eric

“It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the miserable and corrupt.”
― Shūsaku Endō, Silence

“But pity was not action. It was not love. Pity, like passion, was no more than a kind of instinct.”
― Shūsaku Endō, Silence

“To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away the happiness of thousands for the chance of the happiness of one: that would be to let guilt within the walls indeed.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

“Blindness is also this, to live in a world where all hope is gone.”
― José Saramago, Blindness