The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God. — William Law Copy Share Image
Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity… — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing. — Ferdinand Mount Copy Share Image
To be without pity for other mens falls, is an evident sign that we shall fall ourselves shortly. — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Hey Ladies... give yourselves a break.No one owns your happiness.If someone doesn't make you happy then you should make yourself happy.Self pity… — Natasha Nsemiwe Copy Share Image
[On her mastectomy:] Pity is delicious. I was crazy about the pity I got. It was the best kind, too. I did… — Betty Rollin Copy Share Image
American feminism's nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I believe, as human beings, we sometimes indulge in self pity more than it's necessary. Over my life's journey, I have realised… — Sonali Bendre Copy Share Image
It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had--yea, and that among very wise men--to find out rather a cunning man… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
“I'm not staying with him for the pain. It's what he says in his sleep. When he's moaning, he whispers. The cry… — SHOOWA Copy Share Image
For the last six or seven years the circus has no longer been in fashion. That is a pity. One should go… — Adrienne Monnier Copy Share Image
Kindliness, friendliness, the courtesy of the heart, are ever-flowing streams of non egoistic impulses, and have given far more powerful assistance to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“West couldn't simply leave the man like this, he didn't have it in him. "Goodman Heath," he said as he approached, and… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
“ Constance: Tell me, what happened to William's little maid? I never saw her again after that dinner. Mary Maceachran: Elsie? --… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I know what you think of me, O Great Acheron. I know how much you pity me and I don’t need it.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage. — Robert Nathan Copy Share Image
“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.” — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Homer Simpson, I show you pity, and how do you repay me? With a kick in the kididdlehopper! — Ned Flanders Copy Share Image
There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image