“Pity preserves things that are ripe for decline, it defends things that have been disowned and condemned by life, and it gives… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
During a photo-call with fellow Olympic gold medallist Duncan Goodhew- Pity Steve Ovett didn't show up. Then we could have had the… — Daley Thompson Copy Share Image
...surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch… — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice.… — Anonymous 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
When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity. And… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God's care and pity for every… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“No weekends for the gods now. Wars flicker, earth licks its open sores, fresh breakage, fresh promotions, chance assassinations, no advance. Only… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it. — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
“Is it a small thing to quench the flames of hell with the holy tears of pity -- to unbind the martyr… — Robert G. Ingersoll 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
Let others mock at you, oppose you, when you are under the influence of any passion; do not be in the least… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“However angry I was with him, however much I wanted to humiliate Terry, I suddenly saw such humanity in his eyes, and… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
I cannot always sympathize with that demand which we hear so frequently for cheap things. Things may be too cheap. They are… — Benjamin Harrison Copy Share Image
“So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
They love the country, and none else, who seek For their own sake its silence and its shade. Delights which who would… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“What a pity? Mankind often neglect the knowledge that will save their soul.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
It would be more in keeping with the intention of the noblest man in this world if our two Christian churches, instead… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
