“Pity. What a useless emotion when you don't act on it. Pity is supposed to trigger compassion.” — Lish McBride Copy Share Image
None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
“Self-pity is the worst disability a person can have, Callie. It's crippling.” — Shelley Terrell 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
There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness. — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
“Self-pity is spiritual suicide. It is an indefensible self-mutilation of the soul.” — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
“And, much more than hate, it is pity which is the opposite, the doom, of love. For to love or hate truly,… — Cameron Dokey Copy Share Image
It's a pity that I can never really enjoy my movies because, after the mixing, your capacity as a spectator just disappears.… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
1. Find a subject you care about. 2. Do not ramble, though. 3. Keep it simple. 4. Have the guts to cut.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
For a song I was bought Now I lie when I talk With a careful eye on the cue card. Onto a… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
A lot of roles for people with disabilities are quite patronising. It's a real pity when they are just used to give… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease; delicacy is not debility; nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity, and sickness… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer?… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
And so he did his endless work,' I continued quietly, 'without feeling, without pity, without rest, for to open his heart to… — Martine Leavitt Copy Share Image
The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
[The kidnapping] happened 14 years ago, and I didn't talk about it for ten years because I was too embarrassed. I was… — Frida Farrell Copy Share Image
In the beginning I tried to accommodate everything there that was somewhere between art and garbage and that somehow seemed important to… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“Such is the pure movement of nature prior to all reflection. Such is the force of natural pity, which the most depraved… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
You need not fear me, for I not only should think it wrong to marry a man that was deficient in sense… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
“Under the influence of politicians, masses of people tend to ascribe the responsibility for wars to those who wield power at any… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“We don’t need your pity. We get along just fine without it and them other things too. You don’t need electronic crap… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Perfect maturity is when a person hurts you, and you try to understand their situation and don't hurt them back… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It’s not pity, Isabelle. It’s survival. I’m not letting you go through this alone. I’ll see you at eleven.” — Melyssa Winchester Copy Share Image
“..it would be a real pity to die when I’d finally put tabs on who had gotten me into this mess—” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead. — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
Don't pity the dead, pity the living. And above all, all those who lived without love — Joanne Rowling Copy Share Image
Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form. — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
If you realize that those who do mean things are psychologically ill, your feelings of anger will turn to feelings of pity. — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
To show pity is felt as a sign of contempt because one has clearly ceased to be an object of fear as… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Oh, pity the poor glutton Whose troubles all begin In struggling on and on to turn What's out into what's in. — Walter de La Mare Copy Share Image
“Pity can be a powerful tool. Anytime you can make someone else feel something, you’ve got power over them.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely. — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“When you marry a woman out of pity, then its a pity that you'll send her away very soon.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image