“Aragorn looked at him with kindly pity. 'Very well, Frodo, son of Drogo,' he said. 'You shall have an hour, and you… — J.R.R Tolkien Copy Share Image
“But I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“It is a pity that dead men are still impacting the world while men who are still alive are wasting away, roaming… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Bigots often like to say they're the ones being hurt as they oppress and hurt others. Never fall for the 'pity the… — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“His immense self-pity, his demand for sympathy poured and spread itself in pools at their feet, and all she did, miserable sinner… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When late I attempted your pity to move, Why seemed you so deaf to my prayers? Perhaps it was right to dissemble… — John Philip Kemble 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
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
A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves.… — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion… — John Berger 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
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
“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
Possibly, over the course of time, the brain capacity of homo sapiens will have made such great progress, that complications as contained… — Lodewijk Prins 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
“Rather, the best clue is, of all things, the pity play. The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. Remarking… — Alfonso X of Castile Copy Share Image
Writing itself, if not misunderstood and abused, becomes a way of empowering the writing self. It converts anger and disappointment into deliberate… — Ted Solotaroff 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
When he tries to extend his power over objects, those objects gain control of him. He who is controlled by objects loses… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“I gave myself to you sooner than I ever did to any man, I swear to you; and do you know why?… — Alexandre Dumas-fils 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
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
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
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
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