I have always been good at auditioning, but maybe because I had a good trick at the beginning. I would pretend that… — James Marsden Copy Share Image
Try not to sing too many sad songs for yourself. The universe already hates you. Self-pity isn't going to help. — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
If I meet the Christian Deity, I am lost: He is a tyrant and as such, is full of ideas of vengeance;… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Alternate translation: Come brethren, if you have a mind to be ingrafted in the vine, It is a pity to see you… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
When your fear touches someone's pain it becomes pity; when your love touches someone's pain, it becomes compassion. To train in compassion,… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
Generosity is the accompaniment of high birth; pity and gratitude are its attendants. — Pierre Corneille 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 was like me in lineaments-- her eyes Her hair, her features, all, to the very tone Even of her voice, they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...But we enjoyed playing games and were punished for them by men who played games themselves. However, grown-up games are known as… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Where I say that He abideth sorrowfully and moaning, it meaneth all the true feeling that we have in our self, in… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
Possibly, over the course of time, the brain capacity of homo sapiens will have made such great progress, that complications as contained… — Lodewijk Prins Copy Share Image
Do you fast? Then feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, visit the sick, do not forget the imprisoned, have pity… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
God damn! Drug dealers dealin' to the kiddies, Livin' in the city ain't no pity on the itty-bitty. We try to cry,… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
I was taught in the sixth grade that we had a standing army of just over a hundred thousand men and that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
To desire Him to be merciful to us is to acknowledge Him as God. To seek His pity when we deserve no… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
... real pity should stretch out to people whom we do not like -- to those whom we have injured or who… — Margaret Campbell Barnes Copy Share Image
How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I thought told you to watch where you put your feet," he said accusingly. Erak shrugged. I did," he replied ruefully. "But… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anything wrong with pity. Like if you saw a dog having just been hit by a car, you… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“True emotional understanding has nothing to do with cheap sentimental pity.” — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
