How different is the ready hand, tearful eye, and soothing voice, from the ostentatious appearance which is called pity. — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Try not to sing too many sad songs for yourself. The universe already hates you. Self-pity isn't going to help. — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“I sincerely pity the poor man you marry. I doubt he’ll have a moment’s peace.” — Heather King Copy Share Image
Americans began by loving youth, and now, out of adult self-pity, they worship it. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard… — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
The raw hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound, and I know where the mouth is. And… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
remember the golden apple-trees; O, do not pity them, as you watch them drop one by one, for they fall exhausted, numb,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Two days ago we waded through the mud out to this grave beneath the pines at the foot of the hill to… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
“Pity the theory which sets itself in opposition to the mind! It cannot repair this contradiction by any humility, and the humbler… — Carl Von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
DO you know how people who have nothing delude themselves? You believe that there are things like truth and pity. There aren't… — Kim Do-hoon Copy Share Image
It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It sometimes seemed to him that for love to work, it had to be fair, that he should tell only half the… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“I feel like this is totally a moment for Perry and Dex, considering they’ve been to Hell and back (again, literally) and… — Karina Halle Copy Share Image
“So true it is, and so terrible too, that up to a certain point the thought or sight of misery enlists our… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The purpose of a short story is ... that the reader shall come away with the satisfactory feeling that a particular insight… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
The Mackenzie had never met folk so poor in story and song and legends, and it moved him to a pity that… — S.M. Stirling Copy Share Image
I think seriousness is a mask of self-importance and self-importance in turn is a mask for self-pity. So if you're really going… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
It’s a pity if someone… has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice,… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Self-pity is the bestiality of emotions: it absolutely disgusts people. When you're feeling pity for yourself, and somebody says to you 'You… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Milk-livered man, That bear'st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs; Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning Thine… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow… — Kate Horsley Copy Share Image
I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
If it takes a hundred years, it will be a pity, but I will not cease to work for it as long… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
“And on the way home I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.” — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
one pities most those who loved, and still died. Only those who love, dread death. — Craig L. Rice Copy Share Image
It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim… — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
“One thing I found out then was that pity is a form of love and, actually, its highest expression. A Tale of… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Self pity is worst enemy.If we yield to it,we may never rise to occasion & will always project ourself as doomed one. — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
I love my black hair, but some imes I'd like to be blond, but I don't think it suits Asian girl... What… — Ming Xi Copy Share Image
Most of the time nothing much is required of directors, which is a pity. — Asia Argento Copy Share Image
It is people who go through suffering that have an empathy for the suffering of others. — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
“An unearned income encourages self-pity in those already prone to it.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It is a pity that Elizabeth and I cannot marry each other. Our children would have gained mastery over the whole world. — Pope Sixtus V Copy Share Image
