Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
“A man’s capacity to feel sorry for himself is bottomless: once you take that first step, it’s an easy slide down.” — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whatever impatience we may feel towards our neighbor, and whatever indignation our race may rouse in us, we are chained one to… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature. — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path… — Mencius Copy Share Image
We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Of one thing I am sure. Complaining is self-perpetuating and counterproductive. Whenever I express my complaints in the hope of evoking pity… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I was never great, but I was a good [basketball] player, and I could play seriously. Now I'm like one of these… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Certainly. But take this into consideration: of every ten problems we have, nine are created by our own selves - through guilt,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Self-pity is like chocolate; as you get older, you can only afford a little bit. — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
I ask you to try something. If someone grieves you, or dishonors you, or takes something of yours, then pray like this:… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure; Pity… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling whisper. The… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When you have lived longer in this world and outlived the enthusiastic and pleasing illusions of youth, you will find your love… — Joseph Henry Shorthouse Copy Share Image
To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Many people have said to me, "What a pity you had such a big family to raise." "Think of the novels and… — Olga Masters Copy Share Image
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