“Filled with self-pity and calling himself “a man who had given up his life for his country and for Africa,” he” — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion! — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison. — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
The great basis of the Christian faith is compassion; do not dismiss that from your hearts, neither will your Maker. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“She discovered how distant pity was from hate, how very far it was from love.” — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
There's a lot that you can be And ain't it a pity But its alright to smile back at me — Shannon Hoon Copy Share Image
There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I’ve never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion. We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn’t… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
Dress your best on your execution day. Be extremely courteous to your assistant when you lose money. Try not to blame others… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Brilliant. A very funny and concise explanation of why we men are as we are. If you are male, you should read… — Harry Enfield Copy Share Image
God made poor woman with no heart, But gave her skill, and tact, and art, And so she lives, and plays her… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you--these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
You might think people would buy clothes out of pity, but they won’t. People buy clothes because they want to be excited… — Katharine Hamnett Copy Share Image
“You know what? Let’s have the fucking truth. I’ve heard your pathetic excuses, how about you hear me out now? Let me… — Mia Asher Copy Share Image
... we have been warned by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch… — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
Such exceptional suffering and calamity, then, affecting the hero, and-we must now add-generally extending far and wide beyond him, so as to… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch or weep tonight, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is never late to ask yourself “Am I ready to change my life, am I ready to change myself?”. However old… — Shams Tabrizi Copy Share Image
In some ways I feel sorry for racists and for religious fanatics, because they so much miss the point of being human,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him. — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
“A man’s capacity to feel sorry for himself is bottomless: once you take that first step, it’s an easy slide down.” — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves? — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy. — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
Don't stay by my side because you pity me. Because that will hurt me even more. — Jin0uga Copy Share Image
No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Great God, have pity on the wicked, for thou didst everything for the good, when thou madest them good! — Saadi Copy Share Image
Religion is an edifice built upon the dream of a beautiful world... Pity the dreamers are rarely builders. — Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal Copy Share Image
Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation. — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in… — Benjamin Harrison Copy Share Image
“When we perceive aliens as a joke to be laughed at, they feel so pity for us on the success of their… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
