Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“You can choose to be pitiful or you can choose to be powerful, but you cannot at the same time, be both.” — Mishi McCoy Copy Share Image
Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are. — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“No future triumph or metamorphosis can justify the pitiful blighting of a human being against his will.” — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Thinks your life must be so pitiful if you to have to hurt other people to make yourself feel better! — Sarah Moores Copy Share Image
Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life.… — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I'd set out to do.… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
“I was alone with myself. And disgusting as I was it was better than being with somebody else, anybody else, all of… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin.… — William Booth Copy Share Image
I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated, we need a Constitutional amendment that states… — Jimmy Swaggart Copy Share Image
Please also remember the pitiful gasping/thirsty little mouths/ beaks in summer. They'll appreciate abundant/fresh/cool/clean/ water! Food they can get easily in parks/sidewalks! — Adela Popescu Copy Share Image
Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
As a graduate student at Columbia University, I remember the a priori derision of my distinguished stratigraphy professor toward a visiting Australian… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
[On the socialites in New York in the Nineties who devoted themselves to politics, charities, and other volunteer work:] I never knew… — Margaret Case Harriman Copy Share Image
There is no God," the foolish saith, But none, "There is no sorrow." And nature oft the cry of faith In bitter… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
For what you call the Law is but a club of the rich over the lowest of men, sanctifying the conquest of… — Gerrard Winstanley Copy Share Image
The current anger at the march of turbines and pylons across the hills of Britain is not from nimbys. Government money has… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
I did not feel proud of our country, seeing that we were bombing peasant villages, that we were not just hitting military… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites-to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance-there are no… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Every man who is not for us in this prolonged struggle for liberty is responsible for the present degradation of the mothers… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won’t… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Tax time approaches, and Americans are as always paying H & R Block billions to help them save some of their wealth… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
I am truly amazed that after all this time, religious groups still need to attack entertainment and use these tragedies as a… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
What children don't understand, and can't understand until they grow up some, is how much the whole fabric and process of human… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Yet this perhaps is what love does, or the memory of it; it sucks the life from the living, glorying body and… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
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