“And pity, like a new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, horsed Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Surely a man must be in a parlours state to excite pity, extremely weak to inspire sympathy, or very evil-looking to make… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Tutt’al più commuoversi sugli altri,mai su se stesso. To pity others perhaps, never to pity one’s self. Be touched by others, don’t… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Ive never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion. We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesnt… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
That foolishness is what people call pride. That pride that you'd die to protect... why can't I have it? Did you pity… — Jo Yoon-hee Copy Share Image
Through heaven and earth God's will moves freely, and I follow it, As color follows light. He overflows The firmamental walls with… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
You rave about the Holy Place (Masjid al-Haram) and say you've visited God's garden but where is your bunch of flowers? There… — Rumi 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
“And they will pause just for an instant, and give a sigh to me, and think, "Poor girl!" believing they do great… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“What chance — what one event brought this evil thing to pass, bear with me while I relate. Death approaches; and the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I didn't know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love. It's huge and desperate and it longs to… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
“there is no reason to pity old people. Instead, young people should envy them. It is true that the old have no… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights. Since I was born,… — Jean Rhys 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
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
The first rose on my rose-tree Budded, bloomed, and shattered, During sad days when to me Nothing mattered. Grief or grief has… — Edna St. Vincent Millay 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
Self-pity is the campsite of self-defeat; it is a dark refuge for those parts of us that would rather wallow in what… — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
“...I’m tired of everyone looking at me with pity in their eyes. I’m tired of feeling like my heart is being ripped… — A.B. Shepherd Copy Share Image
I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And if I die no soul will pity me: And wherefore should they,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in… — Leo Tolstoy 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
Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What would you do? Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
The French constitute the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation in Europe and the best qualified in turn to become an… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Just about the worst thing a leader can nurture in his heart is self-pity. And just about the worst thing a leader… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you know, I cry. And sometimes I scream. And I get really angry. And I get really upset, you know, into… — Christina Applegate Copy Share Image
And therefore I looked down into the great pity of a person’s life on this earth. I don’t mean that we all… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“I think of so many people who are no more, and I pity them. Yet they are not so much to be… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
When he sat alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing had changed. His leg still… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
Listen and understand. That Terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity,… — Michael Biehn Copy Share Image
In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
