There is something shameful about the death of a play. It…

there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail, but who…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

I have just been condemned, not to a shameful death, which can only apply to felons, but rather to finding your brother again...I seek…

— Marie Antoinette

There was need of a phantastic, indestructible optimism, and one far removed from all sense of reality, in order, for example, to discover in…

— Carl Jung

“Yet I am still somewhat hampered. I cannot free myself from that strong, commanding voice which speaks to me, or from that mysterious power…

— Stefan Grabiński

A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.

— Seneca the Younger

“WE ARE TO PLAY THE GAME OF DEATH E are to play the game of death to-night, my bride and I. The night is…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Giles' shameful death was, of course, the sign of a crazy old man's inability to adapt to a new world. But his belief, that…

— Philippa Gregory

Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear: let every parent tell the shameful story to his listening children, till…

— John Hancock

The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their…

— Albert Camus

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you--these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine Dark Ones.

— Sergei Lukyanenko

“So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions…

— Anonymous

I feel what they feel: man-hating, that volatile admixture of pity, contempt, disgust, envy, alienation, fear, and rage at men. It is hatred not…

— Judith Levine