If you live in a past dream, you don't enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Gastronomers of the year 1825, who find sateity in the lap of abundance, and dream of some newly-made dishes, you will not… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin 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
It was a pity that movies and live TV left New York for Hollywood. London theater, movies, television - until (Britain's) money… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Your life, my life, the life of each one of us is going to serve as either a warning or an example.… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
“Understand that this is how it works with people like me. Self-pity is the sun around which we orbit, the great gravitational… — Elizabeth Little Copy Share Image
“Poor William!" said he, "dear lovely child, he now sleeps with his angel mother! Who that had seen him bright and joyous… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
If I meet the Christian Deity, I am lost: He is a tyrant and as such, is full of ideas of vengeance;… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art… — Jennifer Haigh Copy Share Image
“Is it a small thing to quench the flames of hell with the holy tears of pity -- to unbind the martyr… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Valentines Day is a day we celebrate real love. A love so strong that two hearts become one. Yeah, when you're happy,… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
I didn't dare to think of anything then except the "facts." To get beneath the facts I would have had to be… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
If I freely may discover What should please me in my lover, I would have her fair and witty, Savouring more of… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
“Falling into the trap of self-pity will get you no where in life. It's sorrowful endless cycle will keep you from reaching… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
Through the fall our nature was stripped of divine illumination and resplendence. But the Logos of God had pity upon our disfigurement,… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression. Isn't there some other way to… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Blest be that spot, where cheerful guests retire To pause from toil, and trim their evening fire; Blest that abode, where want… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“..Well?" "Well what?" "Was it good?" "Was it—?" So typically bloody Toreth. "God, I can't remember." Then she took pity on him.… — Manna Francis Copy Share Image
If I were to speak of war, it would not be to show you the glories of conquering armies but the mischief… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
I never like to judge the character. I just have to leave my feelings of pity, or fear, about a character -… — Richard Coyle Copy Share Image
“Suppose it should turn out that no such person as Christ ever lived. What harm would that do justice or mercy? Wouldn't… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage-and give exceedingly thanks for the mystery which remains… — Robert Nathan Copy Share Image
Desperation is a millstone. It wears away at the very soul, grinding away pity, kindness, humanity and courage. But sometimes it whets… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“O Gandalf, best of friends, what am I to do? For now I am really afraid. What am I to do? What… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which… — James Stewart Copy Share Image
I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
It is a pity that...the majority of feminists and their allies have stuck to the dead ground of "Me Decade" possessive individualism,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It is never late to ask yourself “Am I ready to change my life, am I ready to change myself?”. However old… — Shams Tabrizi Copy Share Image
It is my belief one should not belittle the artist; while, however glorious his fame may seem, his time on Mount Olympus… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
In some ways I feel sorry for racists and for religious fanatics, because they so much miss the point of being human,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It was nothing to her, that an innocent man was to die for the sins of his forefathers; she saw, not him,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Such exceptional suffering and calamity, then, affecting the hero, and-we must now add-generally extending far and wide beyond him, so as to… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch or weep tonight, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch… — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
... we have been warned by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life… — Dwight D. Eisenhower 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
Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“People with a grudge against the world are always dangerous. They seem to think life owes them something. I've known many an… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
