Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Generosity is the accompaniment of high birth; pity and gratitude are its attendants. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
“How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the… — Morrie Schwartz Copy Share Image
The memory of the aged becomes clearer and clearer with time. It has no pity. — Andrea Camilleri Copy Share Image
Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity. — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
Intellectual disgrace Stares from every human face, And the seas of pity lie Locked and frozen in each eye. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
If something always makes you mad or busy or impatient or promiscuous or full of self-pity, the something is likely in you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When Eve upon the first of Men The apple press'd with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
“I think of so many people who are no more, and I pity them. Yet they are not so much to be… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
When he sat alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing had changed. His leg still… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And if I die no soul will pity me: And wherefore should they,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“...I’m tired of everyone looking at me with pity in their eyes. I’m tired of feeling like my heart is being ripped… — A.B. Shepherd Copy Share Image
Self-pity is the campsite of self-defeat; it is a dark refuge for those parts of us that would rather wallow in what… — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Heaven preserve me from littleness and pleasantness and smoothness. Give me great glaring vices, and great glaring virtues, but preserve me from… — Violet Trefusis Copy Share Image
“Pity preserves things that are ripe for decline, it defends things that have been disowned and condemned by life, and it gives… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“There are times where you will feel stripped of everything and full of raw emotion. You will feel like no one understands… — Karlicia Lewis Copy Share Image
My Lord Jesus Christ, who, for the love You bear to mankind, do remain night and day in this Sacrament, full of… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Ah, there is nothing more beautiful than the difference between the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a holy being,… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Compassion arises naturally as the quivering of the heart in the face of pain, ours and another's. True compassion is not limited… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
I was taught in the sixth grade that we had a standing army of just over a hundred thousand men and that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing. — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Pity the poor infant. Born perfect into the world from imperfect parents. — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“And he has to live like this on the edge of destruction, alone, with nobody at all to understand or pity him” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Your're beautiful in every way. If someone tells you differently, pity them for they've lost their way.” — T.E. Antonino Copy Share Image
Can your god save you now? You coward! Drowning yourself in your tears. No one has Pity for you. — Suicide Silence Copy Share Image
Pity does not get you aid. Admiration at your refusal to give in does. -Katniss Everdeen — Hunger Games Copy Share Image
Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Self-pity was like wearing a wool jacket in the sweltering heat, and I wanted it gone.” — Wendy Higgins Copy Share Image
Make clear that people understand what your circumstances are. And looking for pity - that's a mistake. — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
The more time and energy you waste wallowing in self pity, the less time and energy you will have to turn things… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
The house you live in will never fall down, if you pity the stranger who stands at your door. — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as… — William Blake Copy Share Image
I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum? — William Cowper Copy Share Image
