Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself. — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
“For those constantly full of joy, they sometimes feel a little guilty for always feeling so good. That guilt is compassion: it… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
To those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Pitiful and pitied by no one, why have I come to the ignominy of this detestable old age, who was ruler of… — Eleanor of Aquitaine Copy Share Image
Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead,… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The feeling it gave me was an odd combination of weightless self-pity and excitement. I understood my life was meaningless, and this… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
Perfect maturity is when a person hurts you, and you try to understand their situation and don't hurt them back.... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me,and drench me in loneliness. — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
Poor Mr. Pickwick! ... If he played a wrong card, Miss Bolo looked a small armoury of daggers; if he stopped to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Guilt can quickly turn into regret and self-pity. The only way out is through acceptance and forgiveness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have always had a slight feeling of pity for man who has no knowledge of chess. — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
It is said that peace is the basic tenet of all religion. Yet it is in the name of religion that there… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
