I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Women smirk at baldness. How adorable would they find it if they began to lose their breasts in their late twenties? If… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
These are the lords That have bought titles: men may merchandise Wares, ay and traffic in all commodities From sea to sea,… — Eliza Haywood Copy Share Image
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and… — Kevin Malarkey Copy Share Image
She has form," he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove - "that cannot be denied to her; but… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“What happens when you give people a 2nd chance? They blame you for it. What happens when you give people a 3rd… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
I am still learning about love. I thought I understood it--not just mother love, but the love for one's parents, for one's… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
“Hayden, as the first girl to take pity on my brother, let me offer my condolences. Suggestion? You might want to kick… — Nicole Williams Copy Share Image
To the last day of your life, be positive; try to be cheerful. Even at the very end, don't think, "I am… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo… — John Barth Copy Share Image
There was a child went forth everyday, And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or dread,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“A valley full of genuine suffering, and of joys that often turn out to be false, and so incredibly tumultuous that it… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The action of Pity leaps quicker than light from the highest place to the lowest to bring healing and joy, whatever the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy.… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“There must surely be much more to be said than the mere recounting of an incident: about the loves and hates of… — Es'kia Mphahlele Copy Share Image
As nice as some of the booths are, it's not the same thing. It's a pity for young artists, because one of… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
In music everything is prolonged, everything is edified, and when the enchantment has ceased, we are still bathed in its clarity; solitude… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
When he was young, he had thought love had something to do with understanding, but with age he knew that no human… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
It is probably a pity that every citizen of each state cannot visit all the others, to see the differences, to learn… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
For the record, suspicion can kill, and prejudice can destroy. And a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
“The Lord has put more hardships atop the shoulders of my neighbors — more than I can even fathom coping with. I… — Erica Goros Copy Share Image
“Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Compassion is not pity ... compassion never considers an object as weak or inferior. Compassion, one might say, works from a strength… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
There are many more languages than we think: and man betrays himself more often than he desires. How things speak! - but… — Pierre Klossowski Copy Share Image
Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Pity me'--the unspoken words upon a nation's lips--'because I am indeed pitiable. I have been deprived of freedom--yes, of course, all that.… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like… — Vilayat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“She knew that Virginia's survey of the world was limited to people, the clothes they wore, and the carriages they drove in.… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Do not be deceived by the way men of bad faith misuse words and names … Things are set up as contraries… — R. A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
A miracle. Here's our own hands against our hearts. Come, I will have thee, but by this light I take thee for… — William Shakespeare 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
Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug,… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What will a Hillary Clinton presidency look like? The answer by now seems obvious: It will look like her presidential campaign, which… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
“a tragi-comedy, telling of an impoverished minister’s desperate attempts to gain money by any means, beginning with a mercenary marriage and ending… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
