But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Self-pity was like wearing a wool jacket in the sweltering heat, and I wanted it gone.” — Wendy Higgins Copy Share Image
Can your god save you now? You coward! Drowning yourself in your tears. No one has Pity for you. — Suicide Silence Copy Share Image
Pity does not get you aid. Admiration at your refusal to give in does. -Katniss Everdeen — Hunger Games Copy Share Image
Intellectual disgrace Stares from every human face, And the seas of pity lie Locked and frozen in each eye. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
If something always makes you mad or busy or impatient or promiscuous or full of self-pity, the something is likely in you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Outrage is like a lot of other things that feel good but over time devour us from the inside out. And it’s… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
Resentment is, in every stage of the passion, painful, but it is not disagreeable, unless in excess; pity is always painful, yet… — Alec Douglas-Home Copy Share Image
The Christian pities men because they are dying, and the Buddhist pities them because they are living. The Christian is sorry for… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people if they… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I have given orders to my Death units to exterminate without mercy or pity men, women and children belonging to the Polish… — Adolf Hitler 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
It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“Pity would be no more If we did not make somebody Poor; And Mercy no more could be If all were as… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is supposedly the number one… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Our president is a Christian? So was Adolf Hitler. What can be said to our young people, now that psychopathic personalities, which… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It's a pity. There's no reason why older women shouldn't be presenting programmes in the same way older men do. The only… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity. — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing. — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
When Eve upon the first of Men The apple press'd with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
Generosity is the accompaniment of high birth; pity and gratitude are its attendants. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
“How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the… — Morrie Schwartz Copy Share Image
Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The memory of the aged becomes clearer and clearer with time. It has no pity. — Andrea Camilleri Copy Share Image
For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“It is such a pity how some people Are dead long before their hearts stop beating.” — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us! — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest. — Francis Beaumont Copy Share Image
What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It's a pity we can't play in two or three days as I like to play straight away after a bad game — Jose Mourinho Copy Share Image
I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control. — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
Sometimes I pity the one who suffers from their parents' broken marriage. — Anonymous Copy Share Image