To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. — William Blake Copy Share Image
“Crying and hoping that someone will feel pity, is folly. Rise and do something to escape your evil predicament” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“Then he began to pity the great fish that he had hooked. He is wonderful and strange and who knows how old… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Oh, that is the surprise. It's so lovely, I pity you because you don't know it…” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A mourner is, perforce, a person with a story. The pity is, how very rarely it gets told. — Christian McEwen Copy Share Image
Feeling sad or lonely isn't a bad thing. But those emotions increase the risk that you'll cross the line into self-pity. — Amy Morin Copy Share Image
For pity's sake, if you don't take a shine to a novel, there are loads more in the world; read something else.… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
“Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
If you see somebody really pulling for your sympathy while at the same time hurting you intermittently, you should start to wonder.… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
Temptation gains power where we see it prevail in others we know and we express neither shock or hatred of them and… — John Owen Copy Share Image
In an ideal world, we would have been orphans. We felt like orphans and we felt deserving of the pity that orphans… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to look for pity or sympathy. I was just surprised that so many people in the world of entertainment… — Moby Copy Share Image
Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Pity, Jane, from some people is a noxious and insulting sort of tribute, which one is justified in hurling back in the… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I think sometimes that it is almost a pity to enjoy Italy as much as I do, because the acuteness of my… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
... The truth of the matter is, that most English people don't know how to make tea anymore either, and most people… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I couldn't help but think, as I watched him, of the barrels of toxic fluids that had accrued behind Hal's bike shop… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
It seems to me, that if people only knew how hard it was for me to endure life, they would find it… — Ivo Andric Copy Share Image
