Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I think it's a pity for him that my father didn't have the pleasure of seeing me grow up. I think he… — Claude Picasso Copy Share Image
I don't have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Trump's "Make America Great Again" program trumpets a national identity built on scapegoating, self-pity and grandiosity, and the promise of a strongman. — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
“Was that pity? I think it was. No wonder, I even pity myself. Will the pity make her love me? Make her… — Rhona Cameron Copy Share Image
But to ask pity of our body is like discoursing in front of an octopus, for which our words can have no… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
At the table of a gentleman living in the Chausee d'Antin was served up an Arles sausage of enormous size. "Will you… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
God pity us indeed, for we are human, And do not always see, The vision when it comes, the shining change, Or,… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
“The pity in Matt’s eyes was almost too much to bear but she found herself unable to turn away. She had only… — Julia Barkey Copy Share Image
This isn’t happening to you, princess,” Sabine snapped before I could do more than shake my head. “This is happening to us.… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Choice! The key is choice. You have options. You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame, and… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Alas, where in the world have there been greater follies than with the compassionate? And what in the world has caused more… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“A friend once told me that she understood pity as 'I'm sorry for you', whereas compassion is 'I feel your pain because… — Shannon Moroney Copy Share Image
It's true he was a sinner. But don't pass so final a judgement. Have pity in your heart and don't forget that… — Josemaria Escriva 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
Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Let us not doubt that God has a father's pity towards us, and that in the removal of that which is dearest… — Abraham Coles Copy Share Image
Why, this Satan’s drink is so delicious it would be a pity to let the infidels have exclusive use of it. We… — Pope Clement VIII Copy Share Image
I hated Hollywood. It’s a town without pity. Only success counts. I know of no other place in the world where so… — Grace Kelly Copy Share Image
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Pity! Religion has so seldom found A skilful guide into poetic ground! The flowers would spring where'er she deign'd to stray And… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
My own heart let me more have pity on; let Me live to my sad self hereafter kind, Charitable; not live this… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
Kindness does not require us to be blind to facts or to live in fancies, but it does require us to cherish… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
I pity the people who don't like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and… — Richard Denney Copy Share Image
Be compassionate for them, they are jealous because they have achieved less than us. If we understand their pain and create pure… — Dr BK Satyanarayan Copy Share Image
Ah, children, pity level-crossing keepers, pity lock-keepers - pity lighthouse-keepers - pity all the keepers of this world (pity even school teachers),… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
Not hear it? --yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long --long --long --many minutes, many hours, many days, have I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife inside because there was no alternative except to hide as… — Charles Bukowski 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
You can’t be disturbed by anything. There’s no emotion involved. You can’t feel sorrow, you can’t feel pity, there’s nothing you feel.… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
“He will pity us who pitied everyone ... And He will say, 'I receive them, my wise and reasonable ones, forasmuch as… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky 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
“There is something in that name that seems to inspire absolute confidence. I pity any poor woman whose husband is not called… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
