Self-pity is the most negative quality of the human spirit. Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter. — Jon M. Huntsman Sr Copy Share Image
“It's a pity you didn't have a little more brandy. It might have made you more agreeable!” — Noël Coward Copy Share Image
I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
“There's so much of you here with me, really, it's a pity you aren't all here.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian. — Manfred von Richthofen Copy Share Image
Pity's akin to love; and every thought Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul. — Thomas Southerne Copy Share Image
“Wallowing in self-pity hurts no one except you. Boss up and find a way to get going again.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
Sweat has the power to end a pity party in such a way that even the hostess is happy. — Kristin Armstrong Copy Share Image
But human nature cannot be content on a diet of honey and if there is nothing in one's life that requires pity,… — Angela Thirkell Copy Share Image
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of pity: one is a balm and the other a poison; the first is realized by our friends,… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He's picked out a favorite place to feed his… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I find it tiresome when people parade their agonies for public viewing; the last thing I want to evoke is pity. We… — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
I've held a lot of pity parties for myself. There was a time when I never wanted to face the public again.… — Anita Bryant Copy Share Image
We work with the people not out of pity but out of respect for their potential for growth and development, both as… — Y. C. James Yen Copy Share Image
The offence is what is improperly called the death of an infant, who has ceased to be, before knowing what existence is,… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“Pity, if one can generalize, is at the bottom of woman. When men like us, it is for our better qualities, and… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
Love was also an easy word, used carelessly. Felons and creeps could offer it coated in sugar, and users could dangle it… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
He made the earth first and peopled it with dumb creatures, and then He created man to be His overseer on the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Without courage, honor, compassion, pity, love and sacrifice, as William Faulkner pointed out, we know not of love, but lust. We debase… — Earl Hamner, Jr Copy Share Image
When one has praised Turgenev, however, for the beauty of his character and the beautiful truth of his art, one remembers that… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Why the hell does everything seem to always want to fall apart right when it's almost put back together? It's official I… — Justin Lee Riner Copy Share Image
“Uncertain way of gain. But I am in So far in blood that sin will pluck on sin. Tear-falling pity dwells not… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“As if pity is, as he has been taught, not a helpless outcry but a powerful tide that could redeem the world...” — John Updike Copy Share Image
“True emotional understanding has nothing to do with cheap sentimental pity.” — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Life is a huge smile if we stop expecting any outsiders understanding and stop hoping for other peoples sympathy. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
If I were over full of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not take my… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I'm going to do my thing and if you react a certain way - with pity or with anger - that's up… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
Time to stop crying, time to get her act together and do something. Time to move beyond the pity party. — Lisa McMann Copy Share Image
We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“I don't know, I'm kinda busy. I've got a pity party scheduled for eight o'clock followed by wallowing at nine.” — Mia Sheridan Copy Share Image
“You are a sad, sad little man and you have my pity. — Buzz Lightyear ” — Cathy East Dubowski Copy Share Image
I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
A pity to survive night flights over St. Georges Channel only to crack my skull falling from a ladder. — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
