“for in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Human beings of all societies in all periods of history believe that their ideas on the nature of the real world are… — Edward Robert Harrison Copy Share Image
A mourner is, perforce, a person with a story. The pity is, how very rarely it gets told. — Christian McEwen Copy Share Image
Christ prayed for those that crucified Him: 'Father, count not this sin against them; they know not what they do.' Archdeacon Stephen… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
A man is seldom more manly than when he is what you call unmanned,--the source of his emotion is championship, pity, and… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why do I… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are finished.… — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
You do small movies because the script is good and because you believe in the director. You don't care about the money.… — Stephen Rea Copy Share Image
The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Hateful day when I received life!' I exclaimed in agony. 'Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it. — John Green Copy Share Image
It always seems to me that one of the saddest things about the death of a literary man is the fact that… — Stuart Dodgson Collingwood Copy Share Image
A form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
Our president is a Christian? So was Adolf Hitler. What can be said to our young people, now that psychopathic personalities, which… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Spiritual Love is born of sorrow. . . . For men love one another with spiritual love only when they have suffered… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
