What are you doing?" she asked, trying to raise herself. "First, I thought I'd show you what a pity it would be… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I'm through with self pity and cutting myself down every single day. I am beautiful no matter what anyone says because God… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poor give us much more than we give them. They're such strong people, living day to day with no food. And… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
...surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Piscary killed people, but he didn’t have the concept of pity or remorse. It would be like telling a shark he was… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
“If you must know, Carol, Barbara and I had a pity party.” “A what? You’re kidding, right?” He didn’t bother to hide… — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
I will teach you to love death. I will empty you of grief and guilt and self-pity and fill you up with… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
I have to be honest with you. Islam is on very thin ice with me... Through our screaming self-pity and our conspicuous… — Irshad Manji 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
Clary grinned. "A picnic? It's a little late for Central Park, don't you think? It's full of-" He waved a hand. "Faeries.… — Cassandra Clare 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
“War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Pity . . . is more properly bestowed in cases of involuntary suffering than of crime and offences committed voluntarily and with malice aforethought.” — Antiphon Copy Share Image
If you were not full of self-pity you would soon observe that we ourselves are to blame for all this evil, because… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
Remorseless time! fierce spirit of the glass and scythe,--what power can stay him in his silent course, or melt his iron heart… — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is a passion of reverence, almost of pity, mingling with the love of an honest man for a pure girl, which… — Lucas Malet Copy Share Image
Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure; Pity… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Pity thwarts the whole law of evolution, which is the law of natural selection. It preserves whatever is ripe for destruction;” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Paperwork, paperwork with a woman who pats my head while shaking her own. I step back, hating pity, having learned from Mother… — Thanhha Lai Copy Share Image
It will become a pity when you fail to carry out your responsibility as a mortal human being, that Mr. pity can… — My Copy Share Image
O brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother; Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there; To worship rightly is… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
“Anyone who says "we must try to understand" those who make life miserable for those undeserving of misery is abiding and abetting… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
With all the other -isms that we deal with, that sort of nameless -ism that we have in too many of our… — Benjamin Todd Jealous Copy Share Image
In the field of controversy I always pity the moderate party, who stand on the open middle ground exposed to the fire… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment… — Charlotte Bingham Copy Share Image
“In the middle of this poor life, we are surrounded by mystery, and the pity of it is that we would rather… — Jennifer Stevenson Copy Share Image
The Irish tell the story of a man who arrives at the gates of heaven and asks to be let in St.… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
O thou who art able to write a book which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
What a pity it is that there are so many words! Whenever one wants to say anything, three or four ways of… — Julius Charles Hare Copy Share Image
People seem to think themselves in some ways superior to heaven itself, when they complain of the sorrow and want round about… — Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie Copy Share Image
Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I've covered a lot of the British countryside and the UK from top to bottom and side to side. It's such a… — Alan Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
