“So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you--these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed. — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image