What would you do? Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
He Who is wrapped in purple robes, With planets in His care, Had pity on the least of things Asleep upon a… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Ah, there is nothing more beautiful than the difference between the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a holy being,… — Alexander MacLaren 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
God made poor woman with no heart, But gave her skill, and tact, and art, And so she lives, and plays her… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely. — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
There is nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ... Time, self-pity, apathy, bitterness,… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
“Fire and water looked so lovely together. It was a pity they destroyed each other by nature.” — R.F. Kuang Copy Share Image
Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Self Pity is the most miserable party to go to, because, in case you haven't noticed, you're the only one who is… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol'… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I pity the Hindu who does not see the beauty in Jesus Christ's character. I pity the Christian who does not reverence… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“No pity for these things, there is no pity but mine, oh father, for the pity of your butchering rawblood death.” — Sophocles Copy Share Image
It is important not to allow ourselves to be put off by the magnitude of others' suffering. The misery of millions is… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Most disability charity hinges on that notion - that you need to send your money in quick before all these poor, pitiful… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
It's a pity we don't whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading. — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
Being a retired major looks like an ideal thing to me. What a pity you couldn't eternally have been just a retired… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Brilliant. A very funny and concise explanation of why we men are as we are. If you are male, you should read… — Harry Enfield Copy Share Image
The poor give us much more than we give them. They're such strong people, living day to day with no food. And… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Jesus made me, so he should save me from pity, sympathy and idiots discussing me. — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
