Self pity is an excuse to do nothing. To appeal to sympathy for pity's sake is to seek affirmation of the choice… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Before we commiserate with others, right pity ourselves before others sympathetic to our plight — EwaN Here's IXII Copy Share Image
Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Anyone who says "we must try to understand" those who make life miserable for those undeserving of misery is abiding and abetting… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
In the field of controversy I always pity the moderate party, who stand on the open middle ground exposed to the fire… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
With all the other -isms that we deal with, that sort of nameless -ism that we have in too many of our… — Benjamin Todd Jealous Copy Share Image
An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment… — Charlotte Bingham Copy Share Image
“In the middle of this poor life, we are surrounded by mystery, and the pity of it is that we would rather… — Jennifer Stevenson Copy Share Image
The Irish tell the story of a man who arrives at the gates of heaven and asks to be let in St.… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
I didn't know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love. It's huge and desperate and it longs to… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
If the impure and the unjust, the drunkard and the licentious, are loathsome to us, what must be the infinite loathing of… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
“And they will pause just for an instant, and give a sigh to me, and think, "Poor girl!" believing they do great… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“What chance — what one event brought this evil thing to pass, bear with me while I relate. Death approaches; and the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Observers in the full enjoyment of their bodily senses pity me, but it is because they do not see the golden chamber… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“There's so much of you here with me, really, that it's a pity you aren't all here.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.” — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Hearken to my story. Listen but do not pity me. For pity is intended for the weak and I am still strong… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity? — I. L. Peretz Copy Share Image
Being a retired major looks like an ideal thing to me. What a pity you couldn't eternally have been just a retired… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“you say you don’t want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“For all the luxuries available to today’s American children, in their nerdy bike helmets, I pity them.” — Dan Johns Copy Share Image
Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I have found that the best cure for self pity is to do something to help someone else. — Carl Orr Copy Share Image
“How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then” — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Misery loves company, but it hates confidence. Be bold enough to say NO to anyone who invites you to a pity party. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I fix mine eye on thine, and there Pity my picture burning in thine eye...” — John Donne Copy Share Image
Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's. — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
I don't want people to feel sorry for me, I want them to realize how strong I am. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
