Pity is the feeling of well-intentioned people who are unable to act. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
With 'Pity Party,' it's the first time seeing my vision come to life in front of my face. I'm super happy about… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
I missed a whole cycle of childhood, but I've never used it as a device for self-pity. — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Self-pity is one of the most dangerous forms of self-centeredness. It fogs our vision. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had a lot of pity for myself. But I could concentrate more on my studies as a result. — Phan Thi Kim Phuc Copy Share Image
I'm through with self pity and cutting myself down every single day. I am beautiful no matter what anyone says because God… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What are you doing?" she asked, trying to raise herself. "First, I thought I'd show you what a pity it would be… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“I know part of my sorrow is just disguised self-pity, I needed that exchange and I worry how I'll cope without it… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . .… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures… — Ernst Toller Copy Share Image
When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does… — Haniel Long Copy Share Image
“Pity is such an awful, useless emotion- you have to bottle it up and keep it to yourself.The moment you try to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
It's a pity that if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn't fit into… — Esperanza Spalding Copy Share Image
“I glimpsed the man's face with the shine of death on it. They laid him down there in the open. They had… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
Many Christians still at bottom look upon God as one of the most selfish, self-absorbed Beings in the universe, far more selfish… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
“Stop constantly pity other people for how unfortunate and miserable they are, it's unpleasent to hear that repeadetly. A man who do… — Fergus MacDermott Copy Share Image
...But we enjoyed playing games and were punished for them by men who played games themselves. However, grown-up games are known as… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“Feel pity for the person who feels they must control all situations in their life and others, and must have things their… — Ron Baratono Copy Share Image
“ What you don't know is the people around you have their own pain and insecurities and they also want to be… — Inger Iversen Copy Share Image
Thank God our time is now when wrong comes up to meet us everywhere never to leave us till we take, the… — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
And what is the great thing that the stage does? It cultivates the imagination. And . . . the imagination constitutes the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Pity the poor millionaire. He'll never know the thrill of paying that final installment. — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
“I wept in self-pity, and because I knew you could never go back. You chose your path, and that was it.” — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
“dont stay feeling sorry for me ive been in so many pieces enough times to know how to put myself together again… — Renaada Williams 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
“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
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 who pity themselves think, 'Why would I try to do anything? I'll just fail.' — Joyce Meyer 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
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 understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don't want pity or random advice. — Teri Garr Copy Share Image
Feeling sad or lonely isn't a bad thing. But those emotions increase the risk that you'll cross the line into self-pity. — Amy Morin Copy Share Image
