“And he has to live like this on the edge of destruction, alone, with nobody at all to understand or pity him” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Pity does not get you aid. Admiration at your refusal to give in does. -Katniss Everdeen — Hunger Games Copy Share Image
Can your god save you now? You coward! Drowning yourself in your tears. No one has Pity for you. — Suicide Silence Copy Share Image
“Self-pity was like wearing a wool jacket in the sweltering heat, and I wanted it gone.” — Wendy Higgins Copy Share Image
Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity. — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
If something always makes you mad or busy or impatient or promiscuous or full of self-pity, the something is likely in you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
O, if there be any kind of life most sad, and deepest in the scale of pity, it is the dry, cold… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
O pity the dead that are dead, but cannot make the journey, still they moan and beat against the silvery adamant walls… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I would hesitate to tell people to stop being kind or sympathetic to sociopath. But just like loyalty, some things that can… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Nor did I need anyone's pity, but I would accept it with grace, because I have been well trained. Rudeness was a… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
Zeal is that pure and heavenly flame,The fire of love supplies ;While that which often bears the name,Is self in a disguise.True… — John Newton Copy Share Image
Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I have a quite feeling of pity for all those who don't know chess; almost like I am sorry for those who… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
If you took this thing on yourself, unwilling, at others' asking, then you have pity and honour from me. And I marvel… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Animals love. They love their being. They strive to survive, to celebrate, to propagate . So certainly something we learn from animals… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
To those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
No one really needs me," he says, and there is no self-pity in his voice. It's true his family doesn't need him.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Writers and filmakers, that is, people who describe the world, suffer from an occupational disease. They never experience moments in life quite… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
La parole humaine est comme un chaudron fe" le o u' nous battons des me lodies a' faire danser les ours, quand… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Intellectual disgrace Stares from every human face, And the seas of pity lie Locked and frozen in each eye. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
When Eve upon the first of Men The apple press'd with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing. — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Tears have a better character cried alone. Pity can sometimes be more wolf than dog. — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
I go down the street, people see me: 'Hey, I pity-' right on, man, that's a compliment to me. — Mr. T Copy Share Image
