Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save. — Edwin Arlington Robinson Copy Share Image
What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. — Frederick Douglass 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
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
Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
She was moved by a kind of commiseration... a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
“As if pity is, as he has been taught, not a helpless outcry but a powerful tide that could redeem the world...” — John Updike Copy Share Image
In the weeks since I had made the decision to leave my father's house, I had grown up. And I had learned… — Cameron Dokey Copy Share Image
Love shouldn't make a beggar of one. I wouldn't want love if I had to beg for it, to barter or qualify… — Jacqueline Susann Copy Share Image
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Even your pity is like a blast of wind and the words you speak would strip a tree of its blossoms. — Tulsidas Copy Share Image
We see how much a man has, and therefore we envy him; did we see how little he enjoys, we should rather… — Jeremiah Seed Copy Share Image
Today is like yesterday and tomorrow will be the same as today. God, help us! Take pity of us! — Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia Copy Share Image
this is what happens to the plans of humans, it is when they make them in the midst of their pleasures that… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
