Guilt can quickly turn into regret and self-pity. The only way out is through acceptance and forgiveness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Religion is an edifice built upon the dream of a beautiful world... Pity the dreamers are rarely builders. — Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal Copy Share Image
Great God, have pity on the wicked, for thou didst everything for the good, when thou madest them good! — Saadi Copy Share Image
I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in… — Benjamin Harrison Copy Share Image
It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation. — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“When we perceive aliens as a joke to be laughed at, they feel so pity for us on the success of their… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture…He takes upon himself… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Speech is a powerful master and achieves the most divine feats with the smallest and least evident body. It can stop fear,… — Gorgias Copy Share Image
The original sin of Republicans is greed. Everyone understands greed. Everybody wants to get theirs. The original sin of Democrats is pity.… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
“Anyone who says "we must try to understand" those who make life miserable for those undeserving of misery is abiding and abetting… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
The Irish tell the story of a man who arrives at the gates of heaven and asks to be let in St.… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
In the field of controversy I always pity the moderate party, who stand on the open middle ground exposed to the fire… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
With all the other -isms that we deal with, that sort of nameless -ism that we have in too many of our… — Benjamin Todd Jealous Copy Share Image
Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Pity the nation that needs to jail those who… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder-but… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold. No ripple on the river, no stir in field or… — William Morris Copy Share Image
Life's very difficult and full of surprises. At all events, I've got as far as that. To be humble and kind, to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
“I wasn't offering her pity," Mrs. Caswell said impatiently. "Tragedies don't interest me, tragedies and heartbreaks are all alike, what matters is… — Dorothy Gilman Copy Share Image
“He saw her right after the seventh-period bell rang. She seemed dressed for the sole purpose of blending in with the lockers,… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy. — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves? — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Don't stay by my side because you pity me. Because that will hurt me even more. — Jin0uga Copy Share Image
No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
The great basis of the Christian faith is compassion; do not dismiss that from your hearts, neither will your Maker. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
There's a lot that you can be And ain't it a pity But its alright to smile back at me — Shannon Hoon Copy Share Image
“She discovered how distant pity was from hate, how very far it was from love.” — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him. — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“A man’s capacity to feel sorry for himself is bottomless: once you take that first step, it’s an easy slide down.” — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
Tears have a better character cried alone. Pity can sometimes be more wolf than dog. — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
