Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear. — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“Self-pity is the worst disability a person can have, Callie. It's crippling.” — Shelley Terrell Copy Share Image
None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you miss out on points, it is a pity, it is a shame, because we tried to do everything in… — Pep Guardiola 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
“Pity. What a useless emotion when you don't act on it. Pity is supposed to trigger compassion.” — Lish McBride Copy Share Image
Pity you can't be present during my periodic fault-finding sessions with my image in the mirror! — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Happy?" asked Aquilina, with dreadful look, and a smile full of pity and terror. "Ah, you do not know what it is… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
We did not adopt socialism out of books, abstractions, humanism, or pity, but rather out of need for the Arab working class… — Michel Aflaq Copy Share Image
I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality. — John W Gardner Copy Share Image
Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly… — Georges Bernanos 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
“What a pity Bilbo did not stab the vile creature, when he had a chance! Pity? It was Pity that stayed his… — J.R.R. Tolkien 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
If one is devoid of hope and thanksgiving, he cannot for long remain sinless, for he will, in despair, have slackened his… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Are you going to go down on your knees and beg for your life, old one?" Abbot Mortimer stared calmly into Cluny's… — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
“Look at that crowd', he said disgustedly. 'They think it's a circus.' 'And not a single coin are they donating', said Dina.… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
My landscapes are not only beautiful, or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful.' By… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror, welled up in Bilbo's heart: a glimpse of endless unmarked days without light or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
