You remind me of the Siberian hunting spider, which adopts a highly convincing limp in three of its eight legs in order… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God. — William Law Copy Share Image
It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Compassion does not only refine and civilize human nature, but has something in it more pleasing and agreeable, than what can be… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
It is a pity that you students aren't fully aware of the luxury and abundance in which you live. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
O vanity, how little is thy force acknowledged or thy operations discerned! How wantonly dost thou deceive mankind under different disguises! Sometimes… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own. — Louis Zukofsky Copy Share Image
I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. Remarking… — Alfonso X of Castile Copy Share Image
I write my miserable songs. I write songs about disgust and self-pity. We’re all going to have bummer moments. That’s not the… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can't do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for they have no… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a… — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“West couldn't simply leave the man like this, he didn't have it in him. "Goodman Heath," he said as he approached, and… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
self-sacrifice is one of a woman's seven deadly sins (along with self-abuse, self-loathing, self-deception, self-pity, self-serving, and self-immolation). — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
pity and charity may be at root an attempt to propitiate the dark powers that have not touched us yet. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
