“Then he began to pity the great fish that he had hooked. He is wonderful and strange and who knows how old… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Crying and hoping that someone will feel pity, is folly. Rise and do something to escape your evil predicament” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. — William Blake Copy Share Image
But the day I can't shrug off a twinge of self-pity, is the day I'm washed up for keeps. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Try to avoid complaints. Self-pity even when legitimate never fails to undermine your strength. — Mariane Pearl Copy Share Image
However, when we are depressed, being reminded of other people's suffering only serves to increase our self-hatred. — Dorothy Rowe Copy Share Image
Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion. — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
For pity's sake, if you don't take a shine to a novel, there are loads more in the world; read something else.… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I write my miserable songs. I write songs about disgust and self-pity. We’re all going to have bummer moments. That’s not the… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can't get out of it by themselves. So every now and then,… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
“Their hearts began to swell with the pity that one feels for a fellow being who has lost both his way and… — Caryl Phillips Copy Share Image
Pity goes hand in hand with contempt. Don't ever forget that, Liberty. You can't take handouts or help from anyone, because that… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“She didn't want pity. Just to love a man and have a man love her. This was nothing to apologize for or… — Robin Schwarz Copy Share Image
Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Do you not think that sometimes when matters are at the worst with us, when we appear to have done all which… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
“However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“I lowered my hands and stared at the tiny horse, considering his question. I couldn’t think of anyone I’d ever felt sorry… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“It was a tough night," Marcus said briefly, another humorless smile crossing his mouth. "But they got what they paid for." "Jesus,"… — Joey W. Hill Copy Share Image
O vanity, how little is thy force acknowledged or thy operations discerned! How wantonly dost thou deceive mankind under different disguises! Sometimes… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
It is strange how little sharpsightedness women possess; they only notice whether they please, then whether they arouse pity, and finally, whether… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The purpose of a short story is ... that the reader shall come away with the satisfactory feeling that a particular insight… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“So true it is, and so terrible too, that up to a certain point the thought or sight of misery enlists our… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
