Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form. — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
If you realize that those who do mean things are psychologically ill, your feelings of anger will turn to feelings of pity. — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Don't pity the dead, pity the living. And above all, all those who lived without love — Joanne Rowling Copy Share Image
What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead. — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
“..it would be a real pity to die when I’d finally put tabs on who had gotten me into this mess—” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Oh, pity the poor glutton Whose troubles all begin In struggling on and on to turn What's out into what's in. — Walter de La Mare Copy Share Image
“Pity can be a powerful tool. Anytime you can make someone else feel something, you’ve got power over them.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Some things take so long But how do I explain When not too many people Can see we're all the same And… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix… — Matthew Van Zyl Copy Share Image
“When no one was watching, he allowed himself a moment of self-pity. Maybe this was all he deserved, to be used and… — Barbara Elsborg Copy Share Image
Pity is like lust ... both like to masquerade as love and it's powerfully hard to know the difference when you're in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Another year in prison, promise this is it for me. Tryna make it through the storm, should be makin history. No feelin… — TI Copy Share Image
A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quicky than reason or… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren--and so it is; and so is… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Give plenty of what is given to you, And listen to pity's call. Don't think the little you give is great, And… — Phoebe Cary 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
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
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
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
“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
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
