Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Think not thou canst sigh a sigh And thy maker is not by; Think not thou canst weep a tear And thy… — William Blake Copy Share Image
There's a shortage of perfects breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours. — Cary Elwes Copy Share Image
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
Things might have been different if she hadn't been able to drift; if she'd had to concentrate on her next meal, instead… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I don’t feel pity for those, who give up by ending their own lives. They must not be so coward; in fact… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Pity for these inhabitants, I have none. In the first place, they are rebels, and I am almost prepared to agree with… — Charles Fessenden Morse Copy Share Image
Love does nothing but make you weak! It turns you into an object of pity and derision-a mewling pathetic creature no more… — Teresa Medeiros Copy Share Image
Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer?… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The tenderness of Jesus… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Of one thing I am sure. Complaining is self-perpetuating and counterproductive. Whenever I express my complaints in the hope of evoking pity… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Nobody likes me,” he concluded at the tail end of a ten-minute pity fest. “Can’t imagine why,” Quinn murmured. I turned my… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
We cannot afford the luxury of self pity. Our top priority now is to get on with the building process. My personal… — Mamie Till Copy Share Image
I've often fantasized about visiting the Bahamian beach where Columbus first stumbled ashore in 1492. Sadly, no one knows where that beach… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
You create a good future by creating a good present. How do you do that? By recognizing the goodness that is already… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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