“Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I have found that the best cure for self pity is to do something to help someone else. — Carl Orr Copy Share Image
“How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then” — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Misery loves company, but it hates confidence. Be bold enough to say NO to anyone who invites you to a pity party. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save. — Edwin Arlington Robinson 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
“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
What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
“Whenever she saw in others an advantage, however trivial, which she herself lacked, she would persuade herself that it was no advantage… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Faith is powerful enough to immunize people against all appeals to pity, to forgiveness, to decent human feelings. It even immunizes them… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
“Yes, but what is it good for? What does it mean?” Her look was full of pity. “If you have to ask… — John Varley Copy Share Image
“The moment you tell someone else is the moment you become a whiner and the world’s smallest violin starts to play. The… — J.A. Redmerski Copy Share Image
“Rather, the best clue is, of all things, the pity play. The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion… — John Berger Copy Share Image
A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves.… — Wendy Mass 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
“ 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
“Age creeps upon your timid little faces Beneath each black umbrella sly and slow, Proud in the unimportance of your places You… — Iris Tree Copy Share Image
Access to communication in the widest sense is access to knowledge, and that is vitally important for us if we are not… — Louis Braille Copy Share Image
Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Some arrogant feel very confident that they are the best. That's pity. Much better men let them feel so for a reason.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers. — John Berryman Copy Share Image
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“Wealth means nothing if you believe such a life affords you the right to pity, Caitie. It affords us great responsibility.” — Melissa Petreshock Copy Share Image
When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I am out there to win. — Joe Frazier Copy Share Image
“I believed she'd gotten past ther hatred of me, turning to pity instead. But how could I make that into love?” — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree... — Elizabeth George Speare Copy Share Image
Dear myself, why do you cut your self and expect someone to pity you and say your beautiful? Because your not your… — Luna Copy Share Image
If every man's internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now? — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
“And he has to live like this on the edge of destruction, alone, with nobody at all to understand or pity him” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Your're beautiful in every way. If someone tells you differently, pity them for they've lost their way.” — T.E. Antonino Copy Share Image
Pity the poor infant. Born perfect into the world from imperfect parents. — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
