Self-pity is, perhaps, the least becoming of all emotions, and we often indulge in it only beause we are too exhausted to… — Ivy Baker Priest Copy Share Image
Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
They love the country, and none else, who seek For their own sake its silence and its shade. Delights which who would… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To me Vivien Leigh was a tragic heroine of classic proportions: chosen, blessed and abandoned by the gods. Obstinately she tried to… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
Self-pity is the worst poverty. When a person says, 'I am...' with pity, before he has said anything more he has diminished… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Do you fast? Then feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, visit the sick, do not forget the imprisoned, have pity… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Growing up in a place that has winter, you learn to avoid self-pity. Winter is not a personal experience, everybody else is… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Ah, there is nothing more beautiful than the difference between the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a holy being,… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Compassion arises naturally as the quivering of the heart in the face of pain, ours and another's. True compassion is not limited… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
I was taught in the sixth grade that we had a standing army of just over a hundred thousand men and that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“There you go, being human again,' said the Doctor. He put an arm around Rose, and hugged her to him. 'It's not… — Jacqueline Rayner Copy Share Image
Let others mock at you, oppose you, when you are under the influence of any passion; do not be in the least… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
When you get down to the nitty gritty, isn't it a pity that in this big city not one little bitty man… — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictions, he cried, in his outraged pity: 'If… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead,… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
Prayer makes a godly man, and puts within him "the mind of Christ," the mind of humility, of self-surrender, of service, of… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
God damn! Drug dealers dealin' to the kiddies, Livin' in the city ain't no pity on the itty-bitty. We try to cry,… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
It's a pity we're still officially living in an age called the Holocene. The Anthropocene - human dominance of biological, chemical and… — Paul J. Crutzen Copy Share Image
Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My capacity for invention is flash hot stark, I thought. Sucker sunshade. Disembodied radar-reconnaissance. Not to mention Bitter Chocolate Death and Killer… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
O blessed bounty, giving ail content! The only fautress of all noble arts That lend'st success to every good intent. A grace… — Michael Drayton Copy Share Image
From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can’t buy time, Nick. Ever. It’s the only thing in life you can’t get most of, and it’s the one thing… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
You're weak and you're gullible, and you're a walking disaster, and I don't care what you do or who you think you… — Kayla C Copy Share Image
The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
I don't want to look back on my career at some point and say, 'What a pity, I came close a few… — Michael Ballack Copy Share Image
“Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable. — Maya Angelou” — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Sounded to me like he had a pretty good idea what he was saying," Van replied, with surprisingly little anger. "It's a… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“I haven’t made time for pity or blame or even resentment. All of those things take too much energy. I just don’t… — Vicki Hinze Copy Share Image
“Such a pity, really; the prey falling for the predator. The victim in love with the killer... A mere mortal girl thinking… — Charlotte Munro Copy Share Image
We did not adopt socialism out of books, abstractions, humanism, or pity, but rather out of need for the Arab working class… — Michel Aflaq Copy Share Image
Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
