I pity those who have no taste for reading. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
I understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don't want pity or random advice. — Teri Garr Copy Share Image
Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting. — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
“People feeling pity for me is as offensive as them feeling inspired by me.” — Christy Leigh Stewart Copy Share Image
There is a kind of misguided pity that deals gently with false teachers at the expense of their victims. — Max Anders Copy Share Image
Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery. — Homer Copy Share Image
“A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
People who pity themselves think, 'Why would I try to do anything? I'll just fail.' — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Self-pity takes away the strength needed to escape the predicaments you're in, don't pity yourself but start to empowering yourself daily and… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes,… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The feeling it gave me was an odd combination of weightless self-pity and excitement. I understood my life was meaningless, and this… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
We pity or condemn the communist peoples of the world for being bound in the chains of doctrine. So are we. Our… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
The truth is that if we are consumed with finding ways to help others, there will be little room left in our… — David S. Baxter Copy Share Image
Part of life is a quest to find that one essential person who will understand our story. But we choose wrongly so… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
If we lived forever, if the dews of Adashino never vanished, if the crematory smoke on Toribeyama never faded, men would hardly… — Yoshida Kenko Copy Share Image
He [Aristotle] pointed out that people who had become initiates in the various mystery religions were not required to learn any facts… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I once lay in a white hospital for the dying and the dying self, where some god pissed a rain of reason… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“All my life I'd been a believing Christian. ... But that instant in the ER--the instant Annette [his wife] died--I seemed to… — Bill Bass Copy Share Image
Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image