It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
Some men make gain a fountain, whence proceeds A stream of liberal and heroic deeds; The swell of pity, not to be… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
God is looking for those with whom He can do the impossible - what a pity that we plan only the things… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity! Or remorse or fear and it absolutely will… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
The army slew a thousand and showed little pity The king ordered fealty from the conquered city The prince charmed its people… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
self-sacrifice is one of a woman's seven deadly sins (along with self-abuse, self-loathing, self-deception, self-pity, self-serving, and self-immolation). — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
“Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
“The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“Don’t ever feel sorry for yourself. Don’t ever seek pity from other people. Don’t ever play the victim, even if you are… — John Hawkins Copy Share Image
He was looking at me, jsut as I'd thought he would be, but like Bert's, his light was not what I expected.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by your propinquity to… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
O my soul, what are you doing? Are you not aware that God sees you always? You can never hide yourself from… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination.… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Do you know...what I think is a great pity? It is this: that we have all become such skeptics that we hardly… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Neither love me for Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry, A creature might forget to weep, who bore Thy comfort… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
The Great slight the men of wit, who have nothing but wit; the men of wit despise the Great, who have nothing… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Shake off the self-pity, shake off the defeat and get ready for God to do something new. He is going to pay… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Pity! The southerly trees have shed their leaves. Nobody comes to appreciate the mountain's beauty. Tomorrow I too will float away. My… — Cheng Man-ch'ing Copy Share Image
I pity those born of the lighter side. They have no understanding of how seductive cruelty is. The music made out of… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from… — John Gardner 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
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The most important point of [Susan] Fiske's work is that it provides a taxonomy for our differing feelings about different Thems -… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear… — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
[Her] love and tenderness ... gave me the faith in love that enabled me to face my dead at last and write… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't want people to feel sorry for me or pity me - I want people to know that what got me… — Katie Piper Copy Share Image
How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
And lady, I don't want your pity So don't feel sad for me I got a love I would die for and… — ProudLesbian Copy Share Image
“Without knowing it, Javert in his awful happiness was deserving of pity, like every ignorant man who triumphs. Nothing could have been… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
None who has known the charity of wine, Its pity, the cool logic of its spell Will waver in his loyalty, or… — Donald Evans Copy Share Image
She dreams of him that has forgot her love; You dote on her that cares not for your love. 'Tis pity love… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
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