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
It is important not to allow ourselves to be put off by the magnitude of others' suffering. The misery of millions is… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If it comes a time that you'll say goodbye, I won't be there begging for you to stay. Because throughout our love… — Mega Copy Share Image
Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“My pride?” “Yes. Self-pity is a form of pride, Joe. And it keeps you from seeing what they’re working for. There’s a… — H.G. Reed Copy Share Image
It's not a problem. There are people out there with much worse problems than mine."-Cynthia "Doesn't make yours any more fun to… — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
And the more pity that great folk should have count'nance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than their even-Christen. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
He made the earth first and peopled it with dumb creatures, and then He created man to be His overseer on the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Without courage, honor, compassion, pity, love and sacrifice, as William Faulkner pointed out, we know not of love, but lust. We debase… — Earl Hamner, Jr Copy Share Image
In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and… — John Updike Copy Share Image
It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I wasn't offering her pity," Mrs. Caswell said impatiently. "Tragedies don't interest me, tragedies and heartbreaks are all alike, what matters is… — Dorothy Gilman Copy Share Image
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Life's very difficult and full of surprises. At all events, I've got as far as that. To be humble and kind, to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold. No ripple on the river, no stir in field or… — William Morris Copy Share Image
Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
“Whenever you are angry, take a beautiful object in your house and smash it to pieces. The pity you feel for what… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Self-loathing is the silent hemorrhaging of the soul. You don't feel or see the life force fleeing until it's not longer there,… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
We have previously suggested that philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I will never tire of repeating this: what the poor need the most is not pity but love. They need to feel… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“And then I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
A pity it was so early in the day and I couldn't treat myself to the roller coaster. we'll have to come… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and foget everybody else! It sound egotistical, but it's actually the… — Anne Frank 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
“But one of the cruelties of teenagehood is that you’ll never know what your parents were really like at your age, and… — Una LaMarche Copy Share Image
God has one destined end for mankind - holiness! His one aim is the production of saints. God is not an eternal… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
“And they are unjust to us often, for when they find life bitter they blame us for it, and when they find… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
God shall not pity them but laugh at their calamity. The righteous company in heaven shall rejoice in the execution of God's… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
What language shall I borrow To thank Thee, dearest Friend, For this, Thy dying sorrow, Thy pity without end? O make me… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother, Bearing his load on the rough road of life? Is it worthwhile that we… — Joaquin Miller Copy Share Image
Our hearts brag about the silliest kind of sadness in which we often find vulnerability to be one of our greatest emotion… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others. It is a delicate foresight of the troubles… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life.… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
