The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.” — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Homer Simpson, I show you pity, and how do you repay me? With a kick in the kididdlehopper! — Ned Flanders Copy Share Image
I feel the deepest, heartfelt pity for any adult who has never been in love. — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
“Pity is such a shabby thing. I can torment myself with wanting to feel pity, and yet I don't succeed.” — Victor Klemperer Copy Share Image
It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“You'll do well, if you don't mire in self-pity. Self-pity only gets you more of the same. Don't waste time on it.” — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
An angel, legend has it, took pity on a little shepherd girl who had nothing to give to the Infant Jesus in… — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
If you see a man who has sinned and you do not pity him, the grace of God will leave you. Whoever… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
Most disability charity hinges on that notion - that you need to send your money in quick before all these poor, pitiful… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
I have always, privately and humbly, thought it a pity that so good a word [as culture] should go out of the… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
“Anger and shame laced with loneliness spread throughout her, heating her to the core. Self-pity wasn’t something Bess would normally succumb to,… — Inger Iversen Copy Share Image
Pride is such a weak emotion rooted in self pity, vanity, and distortion of value, how can you ever value another or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“for in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Sympathy is a nobler feeling than pity. But if sympathy is the principal reason that one person is drawn to another, there… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“All my life I'd been a believing Christian. ... But that instant in the ER--the instant Annette [his wife] died--I seemed to… — Bill Bass Copy Share Image
Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I once lay in a white hospital for the dying and the dying self, where some god pissed a rain of reason… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
It is strange how little sharpsightedness women possess; they only notice whether they please, then whether they arouse pity, and finally, whether… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
O vanity, how little is thy force acknowledged or thy operations discerned! How wantonly dost thou deceive mankind under different disguises! Sometimes… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“It was a tough night," Marcus said briefly, another humorless smile crossing his mouth. "But they got what they paid for." "Jesus,"… — Joey W. Hill Copy Share Image
It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches. — Walter de La Mare Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, self-pity was so ingrained in people that nothing could persuade them to take joy out of living.” — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Ask a glass of water why it pities the rain. Ask the lunatic yard dog why it tolerates the leash. — Terrance Hayes Copy Share Image
What's interesting to me is that people engage survivors from a place of pity all the time - a place of sympathy. — Tarana Burke Copy Share Image
If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I feel pretty and witty and gay. And I pity any girl who isn't me today. — Marni Nixon Copy Share Image
Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity. — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self. — Millicent Fenwick Copy Share Image
“Tragedy, however, is an imitation not only of a complete action, but also of incidents arousing pity and fear.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it! — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Who knows what kind of pity for excuse you from yourself .To just be find the misery that you put yourself within. — Eddy Grant Copy Share Image
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