Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning. — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand why they… — Ian Hamilton Finlay 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
Through the fall our nature was stripped of divine illumination and resplendence. But the Logos of God had pity upon our disfigurement,… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
I think sometimes that it is almost a pity to enjoy Italy as much as I do, because the acuteness of my… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters-self-conceit, self-pity,… — Ezra Taft Benson 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
A total reverse of fortune, coming unawares upon a man who 'stood in high degree,' happy and apparently secure,-such was the tragic… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady; one can pity someone who is suffering ; someone who wants to scratch himself… — Andre Gide 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
Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth. — E. M. Forster 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
Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us! — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
It's a pity I am so impatient and careless, as any ordinary person could learn all the techniques of photography in a… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I've often fantasized about visiting the Bahamian beach where Columbus first stumbled ashore in 1492. Sadly, no one knows where that beach… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write,… — Toni Morrison 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
Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each, Even to the meanest; yea, a boon… — Edwin Arnold Copy Share Image
The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When I saw photographs of children murdered by the Fascist, I felt furious pity. When the supporters of Franco talked of Red… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
