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
Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It changed my whole outlook. I lost a decade to self-pity, and the next thing I knew I was turning 40. — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
We see how much a man has, and therefore we envy him; did we see how little he enjoys, we should rather… — Jeremiah Seed Copy Share Image
Gratitude is a dialysis of sorts... it flushes the self-pity out of our systems. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A mourner is, perforce, a person with a story. The pity is, how very rarely it gets told. — Christian McEwen Copy Share Image
“Oh, that is the surprise. It's so lovely, I pity you because you don't know it…” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Never try to understand the students. They hate it. They would much rather be tragically misunderstood, wallow in self-pity, stew in their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ultimately one has to pity these poor souls who know every secret about writing, directing, designing, producing, and acting but are stuck… — David Ives Copy Share Image
“Lord take pity on the Christian who doubts, on the unbeliever who would fain believe, on the galley slave of life who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady; one can pity someone who is suffering ; someone who wants to scratch himself… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
During a photo-call with fellow Olympic gold medallist Duncan Goodhew- Pity Steve Ovett didn't show up. Then we could have had the… — Daley Thompson Copy Share Image
Love is ruthless; it doesn't feel sorry for anyone, but it does have compassion. Fear is full of pity; it feels sorry… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
Ah! some love Paris, / And some Purdue. / But love is an archer with a low I.Q. / A bold, bad… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Self-pity ? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
When we call something unfair or indecent or unconscionable or evil, when we speak of mercy and pity and compassion, those words… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
“Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'someone,' like everybody else. But he… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
Alternate translation: Come brethren, if you have a mind to be ingrafted in the vine, It is a pity to see you… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
This is the Book. I have read the Bible through many times, and now make it a practice to read it through… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
“What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A total reverse of fortune, coming unawares upon a man who 'stood in high degree,' happy and apparently secure,-such was the tragic… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
Jesus' whole life and mission involve accepting powerlessness and revealing in this powerlessness the limitlessness of God's love. Here we see what… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“When Death, or adverse Fortune's ruthless gale, Tears our best hopes away, the wounded Heart Exhausted, leans on all that can impart… — Anna Seward 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
“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
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
People who pity themselves think, 'Why would I try to do anything? I'll just fail.' — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery. — Homer Copy Share Image
“A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
There is a kind of misguided pity that deals gently with false teachers at the expense of their victims. — Max Anders Copy Share Image
“People feeling pity for me is as offensive as them feeling inspired by me.” — Christy Leigh Stewart Copy Share Image
I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting. — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don't want pity or random advice. — Teri Garr Copy Share Image
Feeling sad or lonely isn't a bad thing. But those emotions increase the risk that you'll cross the line into self-pity. — Amy Morin Copy Share Image
“I wept in self-pity, and because I knew you could never go back. You chose your path, and that was it.” — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
