Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Pity the poor millionaire. He'll never know the thrill of paying that final installment. — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Self-pity is one of the most dangerous forms of self-centeredness. It fogs our vision. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had a lot of pity for myself. But I could concentrate more on my studies as a result. — Phan Thi Kim Phuc Copy Share Image
So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most important— self-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I'm not going to sit here and say, 'Pity me; I came from modeling.' It's opened a lot of doors. People will… — Brooklyn Decker Copy Share Image
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity,… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“Congratulations. You've just been demoted from the "pity" sector to the "apathy" sector. To check the validity of this offer you can… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
Even in the midst of compassion we feel within I know not what tart sweet titillation of malicious pleasure in seeing others… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I ask you to try something. If someone grieves you, or dishonors you, or takes something of yours, then pray like this:… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but stretch out… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
It's really a pity that there are observers who view political events like comic strips. There has to be a Zorro, there… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise. Become a stranger to need of pity. Or if compassion be freely given out, take only… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. I breathe for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You should go." "I can't." "Because you want to stare at the monster?" Alec's green eyes blaze, but with a wholly human… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
Multiculturalism is a campaign to lower America's moral status by defining the American experience is terms of myriad repressionsand their victims. By… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My love, you are driving the entire world mad. The nightingales are committing suicide one by one out of jealousy of your… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Pity is the feeling of well-intentioned people who are unable to act. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
With 'Pity Party,' it's the first time seeing my vision come to life in front of my face. I'm super happy about… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity). [Fr., Mais un pripon d'enfant (cet age est sans pitie). — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
I missed a whole cycle of childhood, but I've never used it as a device for self-pity. — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed. — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity. — Dorothy West Copy Share Image
“As a father has pity on his children, so has the Lord had pity on us; because He is good, because His… — Peter J. Arnoudt 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
