This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
Pity for him who one day looks uponhis inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost. — Ruben Dario Copy Share Image
It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with… — Corazon Aquino Copy Share Image
American feminism's nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts. — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If you're making yourself vulnerable in your writing, then they know where to hurt you, which is extra fun. I had to… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
When your fear touches someones pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someones pain, it becomes compassion. — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
It was quite life-affirming, for me, that I felt hat kind of pity for [Margaret Thatcher], because I didn't think I ever… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Yet, ironically, it is her very wretchedness that makes me pity her so. I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't… — Christopher Pike Copy Share Image
You shouldn't wallow in self-pity. But it's OK to put your feet in it and swish them around a little. — Dick Guindon Copy Share Image
I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a… — J. G. Holland 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
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
Do you not think that sometimes when matters are at the worst with us, when we appear to have done all which… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do is to… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Gratitude is a dialysis of sorts... it flushes the self-pity out of our systems. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
If you took this thing on yourself, unwilling, at others' asking, then you have pity and honour from me. And I marvel… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It changed my whole outlook. I lost a decade to self-pity, and the next thing I knew I was turning 40. — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
