“Pity preserves things that are ripe for decline, it defends things that have been disowned and condemned by life, and it gives… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“There are times where you will feel stripped of everything and full of raw emotion. You will feel like no one understands… — Karlicia Lewis Copy Share Image
My Lord Jesus Christ, who, for the love You bear to mankind, do remain night and day in this Sacrament, full of… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Observers in the full enjoyment of their bodily senses pity me, but it is because they do not see the golden chamber… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I cannot always sympathize with that demand which we hear so frequently for cheap things. Things may be too cheap. They are… — Benjamin Harrison Copy Share Image
It was a pity that there was no radar to guide one across the trackless seas of life. Every man had to… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I hurt for my Marines, goodhearted American guys who'd bear these burdens for the rest of their lives. And I mourned for… — Nathaniel Fick Copy Share Image
One wears one's mind out in study, and yet has more mind with which to study. One gives away one's heart in… — Milton Steinberg Copy Share Image
In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for… — Mary J. Blige 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
If the impure and the unjust, the drunkard and the licentious, are loathsome to us, what must be the infinite loathing of… — Lyman Abbott 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
She quoted a dead playwright and called me a bullet with nothing but a future. She understood my lack of self-pity. She… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
In our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their… — John Irving Copy Share Image
When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one… — Ayn Rand 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
The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is… — Arthur Miller 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
“When people pity you, it's like they don't realize that the exact same thing is coming for them. And then I feel… — Emily Henry Copy Share Image
In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. It may be pure tragedy, if it is high… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“The Lord has put more hardships atop the shoulders of my neighbors — more than I can even fathom coping with. I… — Erica Goros Copy Share Image
For the record, suspicion can kill, and prejudice can destroy. And a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like… — Vilayat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
“Pity me'--the unspoken words upon a nation's lips--'because I am indeed pitiable. I have been deprived of freedom--yes, of course, all that.… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There are many more languages than we think: and man betrays himself more often than he desires. How things speak! - but… — Pierre Klossowski Copy Share Image
Compassion is not pity ... compassion never considers an object as weak or inferior. Compassion, one might say, works from a strength… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
As nice as some of the booths are, it's not the same thing. It's a pity for young artists, because one of… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
“There must surely be much more to be said than the mere recounting of an incident: about the loves and hates of… — Es'kia Mphahlele Copy Share Image
Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy.… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
It is probably a pity that every citizen of each state cannot visit all the others, to see the differences, to learn… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
When he was young, he had thought love had something to do with understanding, but with age he knew that no human… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
