From whence comes it that a cripple in body does not irritate us, and that a crippled mind enrages us? It is… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
In many cases, people who win a Nobel prize, their work slows down after that because of the distractions. Yes, fame is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wonder why love is so often equated with joy when it is everything else as well. Devastation, balm, obsession, granting and… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
From his proceedings in Congress, he appears demented, and his actings and doings inspire my pity more than anger. — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace. — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
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
Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Pity you can't be present during my periodic fault-finding sessions with my image in the mirror! — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
O Day after day we can't help growing older. Year after year spring can't help seeming younger. Come let's enjoy our winecup… — Wang Wei Copy Share Image
“People are always doing things for my sake and strangely enough, I'm the one who suffers for it.” — Robert Masello Copy Share Image
Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
You will surely smile with me when I say, 'Thank God one can still recognise self-pity as such and not give it… — James Fox Copy Share Image
How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
And so he did his endless work,' I continued quietly, 'without feeling, without pity, without rest, for to open his heart to… — Martine Leavitt Copy Share Image
Nobody likes me,” he concluded at the tail end of a ten-minute pity fest. “Can’t imagine why,” Quinn murmured. I turned my… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
Why shouldn’t we experience heartbreak? Through those doorways God is opening up ways of fellowship with His Son. Most of us collapse… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Pity! The southerly trees have shed their leaves. Nobody comes to appreciate the mountain's beauty. Tomorrow I too will float away. My… — Cheng Man-ch'ing Copy Share Image
If Pity come as Pity, bid her stay; But if in guise of Love, chase her away. — Richard B. Garnett Copy Share Image
Pity the poor senator or representative trying to stay alive in the political jungle. At every turn, there's a danger: a constituent… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I will never tire of repeating this: what the poor need the most is not pity but love. They need to feel… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
