Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely. — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
To show pity is felt as a sign of contempt because one has clearly ceased to be an object of fear as… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness. — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Perfect maturity is when a person hurts you, and you try to understand their situation and don't hurt them back… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It’s not pity, Isabelle. It’s survival. I’m not letting you go through this alone. I’ll see you at eleven.” — Melyssa Winchester Copy Share Image
Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people when they're… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
. . . a pity I never had children. But you're wrong. . . . I have . . . thousands of them . . . thousands of them . . . and all boys! — Robert Donat Copy Share Image
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Oh may He look on us with love and pity and then we shall be able to do anything He wishes us… — Catherine McAuley Copy Share Image
I didn't even think of my breasts in a nostalgic way, I just wanted to be able to live my life without… — Sharon Osbourne Copy Share Image
We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Yet, ironically, it is her very wretchedness that makes me pity her so. I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't… — Christopher Pike Copy Share Image
Compassion is not pity ... compassion never considers an object as weak or inferior. Compassion, one might say, works from a strength… — Matthew Fox 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
Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Pity me'--the unspoken words upon a nation's lips--'because I am indeed pitiable. I have been deprived of freedom--yes, of course, all that.… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like… — Vilayat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
For the record, suspicion can kill, and prejudice can destroy. And a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
“The Lord has put more hardships atop the shoulders of my neighbors — more than I can even fathom coping with. I… — Erica Goros Copy Share Image
“Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
