“To be cold and incapable of pity is one thing; to have compassion and use it only when it's convenient is nothing… — Stacey Jay Copy Share Image
Decoration is asked to be 'merely' pleasing, 'merely' embellishing, and the 'functional' logic of Modernism leaves no room, apparently, for such 'mereness.'… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Compassion and pity are not the same: pity is looking down on someone, feeling sorry for them and offering nothing; compassion is… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
Is there no pity sitting in the clouds That sees into the bottom of my grief? O sweet my mother, cast me… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Laughter is the great antidote for self-pity, maybe a specific for the malady, yet probably it does tend to dry one's feelings… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear: let every parent tell the shameful story to his listening… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“Robin was disposed to feel desperately sorry for anyone with a less fortunate love life than her own – if desperate pity… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
But really it’s condescending and patronizing not to make fun of someone because they’re old or stupid or crippled or morbidly obese.… — Paul Neilan Copy Share Image
Honor to those who in the life they lead define and guard a Thermopylae. Never betraying what is right, consistent and just… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your spirit is the duster of any spider web. Behind every finish line, there is a start one. Behind every success, there… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail,… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
There's great sadness and life doesn't work out like you would want, on a lot of levels, but there's no need to… — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
Oh northern mothers wives and sisters, all unconscious of the hour, would to Heaven that I could bear for you the concentrated… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
...and I confess that, like a child, I cry. Ah, self-pity; I think we are at our most honest and sincere when… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“Self pity is the sworn enemy of your ambition. It is the number one killer of your aspirations and goals. Give it… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
At least I could say I tries I can't help you fix yourself nobody cares about me I am done helping you… — Im Nothing Copy Share Image
“What a pity. How the stars and seas and rivers in their fragile lace of fog go on without us morning after… — Pat Schneider Copy Share Image
“But, see, that kind of thinking only led to self-pity and that might be the quality I hated most in people. That… — Callie Harper Copy Share Image
When you have lived longer in this world and outlived the enthusiastic and pleasing illusions of youth, you will find your love… — Joseph Henry Shorthouse Copy Share Image
When I see a cow, it is not an animal to eat, it is a poem of pity for me and I… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel… — Julie Nixon Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity's… — Violet Trefusis Copy Share Image
I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate. I hate murderously. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“It's hard to feel sorry for those willing to fling themselves into disaster. They are their own undoing, my dear. They bring… — Serena Valentino Copy Share Image
I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Sacrificers ... are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those that they sacrifice. Oh, the sacrificers, they get… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“When we pity ourselves all we see is ourselves. When we have problems, all we see are our problems and that's all… — Ann Marie Aguilar Copy Share Image
Truth is the only good and the purest pity. ... Men lie for profit or for pity. All lies turn to poison,… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Miss Aubrey, come and have pity on us. We are reading novels and feel our manliness diminishing by the moment. Come restore… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks… — H. Beam Piper Copy Share Image
In the eyes of mercy, no one should have hateful thoughts. Feel pity for the man who is even more at fault.… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
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