In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“If there is one thing worse than self-pity, it was other people's pity.” — C.J. Duggan Copy Share Image
Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“I can't see the world as a great hospital with us all nursing and pitying each other.” — Elizabeth Harrower Copy Share Image
Nobody can beat you up, as much as you can beat yourself up within your own mind. — Shennon Fabiano Copy Share Image
“A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing--mores the pity.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Anyone who attempts to construe a personal view of God which conflicts with church dogma must be burned without pity. — Pope Innocent III Copy Share Image
When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
Some men make gain a fountain, whence proceeds A stream of liberal and heroic deeds; The swell of pity, not to be… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some… — John Keats Copy Share Image
He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination.… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The army slew a thousand and showed little pity The king ordered fealty from the conquered city The prince charmed its people… — Shannon Hale 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
When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When one has praised Turgenev, however, for the beauty of his character and the beautiful truth of his art, one remembers that… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
“I wasn't offering her pity," Mrs. Caswell said impatiently. "Tragedies don't interest me, tragedies and heartbreaks are all alike, what matters is… — Dorothy Gilman Copy Share Image
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Life's very difficult and full of surprises. At all events, I've got as far as that. To be humble and kind, to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold. No ripple on the river, no stir in field or… — William Morris Copy Share Image
It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Alone thou goest forth, O Lord, in sacrifice to die; is this thy sorrow naught to us who pass unheeding by? Our… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
