Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“If there is one thing worse than self-pity, it was other people's pity.” — C.J. Duggan Copy Share Image
Nobody can beat you up, as much as you can beat yourself up within your own mind. — Shennon Fabiano Copy Share Image
“I can't see the world as a great hospital with us all nursing and pitying each other.” — Elizabeth Harrower Copy Share Image
That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing--mores the pity.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Hey! I get to sleep in a library and read books all night! Without pity, where would I be? I'm a total… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
Anyone who attempts to construe a personal view of God which conflicts with church dogma must be burned without pity. — Pope Innocent III Copy Share Image
“Is that what you are going to do when someone tries to take your life from you? Or the lives of your… — Adam Burch Copy Share Image
Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“In the strangely simple economy of the world people only get what they give, and to those who have not enough imagination… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
Baby, in a world without pity Do you think what I'm askin's too much I just want to feel you in my… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Pity the Party without enough woman power - there will always be dreamers and leaders, but the dreams won't come true, nor… — Judy LaMarsh Copy Share Image
Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“There you go, being human again,' said the Doctor. He put an arm around Rose, and hugged her to him. 'It's not… — Jacqueline Rayner Copy Share Image
Let others mock at you, oppose you, when you are under the influence of any passion; do not be in the least… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Writing itself, if not misunderstood and abused, becomes a way of empowering the writing self. It converts anger and disappointment into deliberate… — Ted Solotaroff Copy Share Image
Do you fast? Then feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, visit the sick, do not forget the imprisoned, have pity… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Growing up in a place that has winter, you learn to avoid self-pity. Winter is not a personal experience, everybody else is… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
When he tries to extend his power over objects, those objects gain control of him. He who is controlled by objects loses… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“I gave myself to you sooner than I ever did to any man, I swear to you; and do you know why?… — Alexandre Dumas-fils Copy Share Image
Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis. — Eloise Jarvis McGraw Copy Share Image
I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control. — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
Sometimes I pity the one who suffers from their parents' broken marriage. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us! — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest. — Francis Beaumont Copy Share Image
It's a pity we can't play in two or three days as I like to play straight away after a bad game — Jose Mourinho Copy Share Image
What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves? — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy. — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
Don't stay by my side because you pity me. Because that will hurt me even more. — Jin0uga Copy Share Image
Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“When we perceive aliens as a joke to be laughed at, they feel so pity for us on the success of their… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image