All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I don’t feel pity for those, who give up by ending their own lives. They must not be so coward; in fact… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Things might have been different if she hadn't been able to drift; if she'd had to concentrate on her next meal, instead… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
“He wouldn't take a sandwich from me. He'd rather go into the Games starving than take food from my hand." "That's not… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“The pity is that the public will demand and find a moral in my book, or worse they may take it in… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“ The hostess looked him over. “If it was, what would you do about it?” “This happen a lot?” … — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Returning to the arched window, she lifted her eyes- scowling, poor dim-sighted Hepzibah, in the face of heaven!- and strove hard to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow… — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
It is Satan's work to fill men's hearts with doubt. He leads them to look upon God as a stern judge. He… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Boulez's only concern is with power. He lost the leadership of the avant-guard more than ten years ago to Stockhausen. Now others… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Its very pulse, if I may use the word, was like no other clock. It did not mark the flight of every… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
From what I see, nowadays punk and anarchy are still connected with "fast loud music by smelly drunk chaos-people" and, yes, I… — G.W. Sok Copy Share Image
Papers should include more side remarks, open questions, and such. Very often, these are more interesting than the theorems actually proved. Alas,… — Jean-Pierre Serre Copy Share Image
Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“There was no word for self-pity in the language of the north-east of Scotland - the nearest being a word which is… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Love does nothing but make you weak! It turns you into an object of pity and derision-a mewling pathetic creature no more… — Teresa Medeiros Copy Share Image
Pity for these inhabitants, I have none. In the first place, they are rebels, and I am almost prepared to agree with… — Charles Fessenden Morse Copy Share Image
Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard… — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
The raw hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound, and I know where the mouth is. And… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
remember the golden apple-trees; O, do not pity them, as you watch them drop one by one, for they fall exhausted, numb,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sympathy is a nobler feeling than pity. But if sympathy is the principal reason that one person is drawn to another, there… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Why do we cling to bigotry? Because bigotry, plainly, is convenient. It is a near-effortless way to both elevate one's stature and… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
A warrior knows that he is only a man. His only regret is that his life is so short that he can't… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
It sometimes seemed to him that for love to work, it had to be fair, that he should tell only half the… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Two days ago we waded through the mud out to this grave beneath the pines at the foot of the hill to… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
“Pity the theory which sets itself in opposition to the mind! It cannot repair this contradiction by any humility, and the humbler… — Carl Von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
DO you know how people who have nothing delude themselves? You believe that there are things like truth and pity. There aren't… — Kim Do-hoon Copy Share Image
Flaubert was right when he said that our use of language is like a cracked kettle on which we bang out tunes… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If the people who hurt us have anger or desperation within them then they suffer. When you see that someone suffers, you… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
An angel, legend has it, took pity on a little shepherd girl who had nothing to give to the Infant Jesus in… — Allen Lacy 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
Most disability charity hinges on that notion - that you need to send your money in quick before all these poor, pitiful… — Stella Young Copy Share Image