It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow… — Kate Horsley Copy Share Image
Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Look around in the world, and you may see some in every place who are objects of pity, bereaved by sad accidents… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever. — James Agate Copy Share Image
I suppose I could have sat back and pitied myself. For a time I wondered if I'd ever be able to go… — Patsy Cline Copy Share Image
Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Pity does not get you aid. Admiration at your refusal to give in does. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror. — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
“It is a pity that dead men are still impacting the world while men who are still alive are wasting away, roaming… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Intellectual disgrace Stares from every human face, And the seas of pity lie Locked and frozen in each eye. — W. H. Auden 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
It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
If you see a man who has sinned and you do not pity him, the grace of God will leave you. Whoever… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
Even now, as I write this, I can still feel that tightness. And I want you to feel it--the wind coming off… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
It is strange how little sharpsightedness women possess; they only notice whether they please, then whether they arouse pity, and finally, whether… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Ultimately one has to pity these poor souls who know every secret about writing, directing, designing, producing, and acting but are stuck… — David Ives Copy Share Image
When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
We are repeatedly left, in other words, with no further focus than ourselves, a source from which self-pity naturally flows. Each time… — Joan Didion 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
Thank God our time is now when wrong comes up to meet us everywhere never to leave us till we take, the… — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
“When someone calls you a 'nigger', then you feel sorry for him... You have to pity him because his mind has such… — Adam Makos 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
