“Self-pity is spiritual suicide. It is an indefensible self-mutilation of the soul.” — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
Be collected. No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart There's no harm done. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“It is strange how you shall hate a man, and yet pity him from the depths.” — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
When your fear touches someones pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someones pain, it becomes compassion. — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“What a pity? Mankind often neglect the knowledge that will save their soul.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn't do more. — B. B. King Copy Share Image
Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces? — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her,… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
“He wishes he could remember everything. Anything. He doesn’t sense a bone in his body that can feel compassion or worthiness. Self-pity… — Christy A. Campbell Copy Share Image
There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
“People who play the victim role in their lives love to feel self-pity. They want you to think that what “happened” to… — Brooke Castillo Copy Share Image
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
In music everything is prolonged, everything is edified, and when the enchantment has ceased, we are still bathed in its clarity; solitude… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
When he was young, he had thought love had something to do with understanding, but with age he knew that no human… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
It is probably a pity that every citizen of each state cannot visit all the others, to see the differences, to learn… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy.… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“There must surely be much more to be said than the mere recounting of an incident: about the loves and hates of… — Es'kia Mphahlele Copy Share Image
As nice as some of the booths are, it's not the same thing. It's a pity for young artists, because one of… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
“...and for which the very name of a Spaniard is reckoned to be frightful and terrible, to all people of humanity or… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
