“Tragedy, however, is an imitation not only of a complete action, but also of incidents arousing pity and fear.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self. — Millicent Fenwick Copy Share Image
Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity. — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I feel pretty and witty and gay. And I pity any girl who isn't me today. — Marni Nixon Copy Share Image
What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it! — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I'm not going to sit here and say, 'Pity me; I came from modeling.' It's opened a lot of doors. People will… — Brooklyn Decker Copy Share Image
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity,… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most important— self-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
When the red wrath perisheth, when the dulled swords fail, These three who have walked with Death these shall prevail. Hell bade… — Theodosia Garrison Copy Share Image
there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail,… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
There's great sadness and life doesn't work out like you would want, on a lot of levels, but there's no need to… — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
Possibly, over the course of time, the brain capacity of homo sapiens will have made such great progress, that complications as contained… — Lodewijk Prins Copy Share Image
Oh northern mothers wives and sisters, all unconscious of the hour, would to Heaven that I could bear for you the concentrated… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
Your spirit is the duster of any spider web. Behind every finish line, there is a start one. Behind every success, there… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. Remarking… — Alfonso X of Castile Copy Share Image
It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches. — Walter de La Mare Copy Share Image
“You'll do well, if you don't mire in self-pity. Self-pity only gets you more of the same. Don't waste time on it.” — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Ask a glass of water why it pities the rain. Ask the lunatic yard dog why it tolerates the leash. — Terrance Hayes Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, self-pity was so ingrained in people that nothing could persuade them to take joy out of living.” — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse? — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Jesus made me, so he should save me from pity, sympathy and idiots discussing me. — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
“I had become so distant from my true self that I was not even capable of self-pity.” — Cezmi Ersöz Copy Share Image
In extreme danger fear feels no pity. [Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.] — Julius Caesar Copy Share Image
I don't want people to feel sorry for me, I want them to realize how strong I am. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's. — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“I fix mine eye on thine, and there Pity my picture burning in thine eye...” — John Donne Copy Share Image
In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“For all the luxuries available to today’s American children, in their nerdy bike helmets, I pity them.” — Dan Johns Copy Share Image