“Happy?" asked Aquilina, with dreadful look, and a smile full of pity and terror. "Ah, you do not know what it is… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I almost pity them. I think I have a freedom they cannot understand. No insult, no blame can touch me. Because… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality. — John W Gardner Copy Share Image
Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
It's a pity. There's no reason why older women shouldn't be presenting programmes in the same way older men do. The only… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
Have interesting failures… If you need to have a personal crisis have it now. Don't wait until midlife, when it will take… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great personal… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“You need to get home, both of you. Louis, I’d like to keep the letters here, if you don’t mind. I want… — Shana Abe Copy Share Image
Where I say that He abideth sorrowfully and moaning, it meaneth all the true feeling that we have in our self, in… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
I've been labelled many times - a criminal, an anarchist, a rebel, sometimes human garbage, but never a philosopher, which is a… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
[H]ow do I pity those who (assuming the name of friends) surround themselves with maxims importing the wisdom of doubt and suspicion,… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy… — William Blake Copy Share Image
I'm either a mutant or a cripple, and I refuse to be a cripple. People pity cripples, but they're afraid of mutants… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
She took the kid, the dog and the kitty and everybody know you're at a low they feel pity and what's really… — Devin Tha Dude Copy Share Image
“You selfish dog. I pity you that you must leave the comfort of your pampered surroundings and sacrifice a little to serve… — Jennifer Clark & Stehonie Williams Copy Share Image
If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity… — Aesop Copy Share Image
Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
If you want to do something against those who left you, smile at them with pity, cause they dont know what they… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
Although I’ve played a wide variety of roles, I’ve never had the chance to act in a story written specially for me.… — Grace Kelly Copy Share Image
“I suppose I should have died right then from pure misery and self-pity, but if those things were fatal, no one would… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn't the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn't… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There… — Marat Safin Copy Share Image
I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren--and so it is; and so is… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quicky than reason or… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
Another year in prison, promise this is it for me. Tryna make it through the storm, should be makin history. No feelin… — TI Copy Share Image
Pity is like lust ... both like to masquerade as love and it's powerfully hard to know the difference when you're in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix… — Matthew Van Zyl Copy Share Image
“When no one was watching, he allowed himself a moment of self-pity. Maybe this was all he deserved, to be used and… — Barbara Elsborg Copy Share Image
Some things take so long But how do I explain When not too many people Can see we're all the same And… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Yet, ironically, it is her very wretchedness that makes me pity her so. I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't… — Christopher Pike Copy Share Image
![“[H]ow do I pity those who (assuming the name of friends) surround themselves with maxims importing the wisdom of doubt and suspicion, 'til they impose on themselves that very hard task of laboring through life without ever knowing a human creature to whom they can make the proper use of language…” quote by Sarah Fielding](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2d0/sarah-fielding-19151_assuming_h-ow-do-i-pity-those-who-assuming-the-na_687697.jpg)
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