Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life. — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Pretty girls involved with me, makin' pretty love to me pretty, pity pity. — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I literally feel pity for a lot of the stupid idiots that I have to deal with. — Rose McGowan Copy Share Image
“My self-pity always had a time limit because I usually got annoyed with myself.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can't have self-pity. At some point, you have to say, 'These are the cards I've been dealt, and I'm going to… — Bret Michaels Copy Share Image
Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother, Bearing his load on the rough road of life? Is it worthwhile that we… — Joaquin Miller Copy Share Image
I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
God has one destined end for mankind - holiness! His one aim is the production of saints. God is not an eternal… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“And they are unjust to us often, for when they find life bitter they blame us for it, and when they find… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But one of the cruelties of teenagehood is that you’ll never know what your parents were really like at your age, and… — Una LaMarche Copy Share Image
While I have always, felt like an outsider, it's because of the professional choices I have made, so it's not like I… — Anna Paquin Copy Share Image
Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride, and have no prospect of great conquests: the easy… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“O Gandalf, best of friends, what am I to do? For now I am really afraid. What am I to do? What… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Desperation is a millstone. It wears away at the very soul, grinding away pity, kindness, humanity and courage. But sometimes it whets… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
It is a pity that...the majority of feminists and their allies have stuck to the dead ground of "Me Decade" possessive individualism,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which… — James Stewart Copy Share Image
“..Well?" "Well what?" "Was it good?" "Was it—?" So typically bloody Toreth. "God, I can't remember." Then she took pity on him.… — Manna Francis Copy Share Image
Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage-and give exceedingly thanks for the mystery which remains… — Robert Nathan Copy Share Image
Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A mourner is, perforce, a person with a story. The pity is, how very rarely it gets told. — Christian McEwen Copy Share Image
“Crying and hoping that someone will feel pity, is folly. Rise and do something to escape your evil predicament” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“Then he began to pity the great fish that he had hooked. He is wonderful and strange and who knows how old… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Oh, that is the surprise. It's so lovely, I pity you because you don't know it…” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
But the day I can't shrug off a twinge of self-pity, is the day I'm washed up for keeps. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. — William Blake Copy Share Image
However, when we are depressed, being reminded of other people's suffering only serves to increase our self-hatred. — Dorothy Rowe Copy Share Image
Try to avoid complaints. Self-pity even when legitimate never fails to undermine your strength. — Mariane Pearl Copy Share Image
It changed my whole outlook. I lost a decade to self-pity, and the next thing I knew I was turning 40. — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion. — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
Gratitude is a dialysis of sorts... it flushes the self-pity out of our systems. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
We see how much a man has, and therefore we envy him; did we see how little he enjoys, we should rather… — Jeremiah Seed Copy Share Image
“I wept in self-pity, and because I knew you could never go back. You chose your path, and that was it.” — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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