Try to avoid complaints. Self-pity even when legitimate never fails to undermine your strength. — Mariane Pearl Copy Share Image
To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
I don't need pity. I want to be looked at like a musician, because I am one. I happen to be deaf. — Mandy Harvey Copy Share Image
Just listen to your instincts. Don't talk to someone or start a relationship out of pity. — Chris Bosh Copy Share Image
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I've been through so much in my life. I really don't like the feeling sorry for me, the pity. — Westside Gunn Copy Share Image
Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
Faith is powerful enough to immunize people against all appeals to pity, to forgiveness, to decent human feelings. It even immunizes them… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“The moment you tell someone else is the moment you become a whiner and the world’s smallest violin starts to play. The… — J.A. Redmerski Copy Share Image
“Outrage is like a lot of other things that feel good but over time devour us from the inside out. And it’s… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“Yes, but what is it good for? What does it mean?” Her look was full of pity. “If you have to ask… — John Varley Copy Share Image
I have given orders to my Death units to exterminate without mercy or pity men, women and children belonging to the Polish… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Compassion and pity are very different. Whereas compassion reflects the yearning of the heart to merge and take on some of the… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I realized how valuable the art and practice of writing letters are, and how important it is to remind people of what… — Nancy Reagan Copy Share Image
“Not everyone understands the love that takes place between two soul mates. Once it strikes, you are never the same. Then every… — Kate McGahan Copy Share Image
I don't even know if I will be around next year. My cancers are so bad that I think I've arrived at… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
“9:36a ἰδὼν δὲ τούς ὄχλους ἐσπλαγχνίσθη πεϱὶ αὐτῶν seeing the crowds, his insides were moved with pity for them THE JEWS AND THE… — Erasmo Leiva Copy Share Image
“the pity which the spectators then exhibit is in so far a consolation for the weak and suffering in that the latter… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling whisper. The… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity -- that was a quality God's image… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“No self-respecting gastronome was going to look back on the 1950s with anything except pity. •” — Laura Shapiro Copy Share Image
The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
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
“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
Pity's akin to love; and every thought Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul. — Thomas Southerne Copy Share Image
It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian. — Manfred von Richthofen 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 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
“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
“True emotional understanding has nothing to do with cheap sentimental pity.” — Alice Miller 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
“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
Life is a huge smile if we stop expecting any outsiders understanding and stop hoping for other peoples sympathy. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
