What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it! — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
What's interesting to me is that people engage survivors from a place of pity all the time - a place of sympathy. — Tarana Burke Copy Share Image
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Truth is the only good and the purest pity. ... Men lie for profit or for pity. All lies turn to poison,… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
“But, see, that kind of thinking only led to self-pity and that might be the quality I hated most in people. That… — Callie Harper Copy Share Image
When you have lived longer in this world and outlived the enthusiastic and pleasing illusions of youth, you will find your love… — Joseph Henry Shorthouse Copy Share Image
When I see a cow, it is not an animal to eat, it is a poem of pity for me and I… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel… — Julie Nixon Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity's… — Violet Trefusis Copy Share Image
I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“Self pity is the sworn enemy of your ambition. It is the number one killer of your aspirations and goals. Give it… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
Recipe for success: Be polite, prepare yourself for whatever you are asked to do, keep yourself tidy, be cheerful, don't be envious,… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
I think that sexuality is only attractive when it’s natural and spontaneous. This is where a lot of them miss the boat.… — Marilyn Copy Share Image
One can imagine a time when men who still inhabit organic bodies are regarded with pity by those who have passed on… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“You need to get home, both of you. Louis, I’d like to keep the letters here, if you don’t mind. I want… — Shana Abe Copy Share Image
I've been labelled many times - a criminal, an anarchist, a rebel, sometimes human garbage, but never a philosopher, which is a… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Where I say that He abideth sorrowfully and moaning, it meaneth all the true feeling that we have in our self, in… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
It's a pity. There's no reason why older women shouldn't be presenting programmes in the same way older men do. The only… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
Have interesting failures… If you need to have a personal crisis have it now. Don't wait until midlife, when it will take… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity. — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
I feel pretty and witty and gay. And I pity any girl who isn't me today. — Marni Nixon Copy Share Image
“Tragedy, however, is an imitation not only of a complete action, but also of incidents arousing pity and fear.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self. — Millicent Fenwick Copy Share Image
“Pity." "You're serious? You just met me." "And already I have a strong urge to devour you.” — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
I pity anyone who can't laugh. There must be something wrong with their religion or their lives. The devil can't laugh. — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Pity for him who one day looks uponhis inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost. — Ruben Dario Copy Share Image
Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong. — Edwin Arnold Copy Share Image
Do not pity the dead but pity the living, and, above all those who live without love — J K Rowling Copy Share Image
Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying. — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
Life ain't all beer and skittles, and more's the pity; but what's the odds, so long as you're happy? — George du Maurier Copy Share Image
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I drive an American car. It's a Chrysler. That's not an endorsement. It's more like a cry for pity. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's. — Olin Miller Copy Share Image
