More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake us — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Please spare us the self-pity about how tough it is to look for a job while living with your parents. — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
“Why wallow in a puddle of self pity when there's a sea of self acceptance and self realisation waiting for you?” — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
Self-pity is like chocolate; as you get older, you can only afford a little bit. — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
If I had to feel one thing towards Jim Hellwig, I guess it would be pity a little bit. — Ted DiBiase Sr Copy Share Image
What pity 'tis, one that can speak so well, Should in his actions be so ill! — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
“Pity isn't the only thing I don't do. Princesses are high on my lists too.” — Nyrae Dawn Copy Share Image
Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way. — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
Whoever will not love his enemies cannot know the Lord and the sweetness of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit teaches us… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each, Even to the meanest; yea, a boon… — Edwin Arnold Copy Share Image
Our original title, you know, was 'The Man in Lincoln's Nose'. Couldn't use it, though. They also wouldn't let us shoot people… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at a keyhole. It is a pity for such… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. ... All I ask is, give… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Even if you have the wit to look by yourself in a bush away from the other children, there are not many… — Yasunari Kawabata Copy Share Image
I don’t think I pity her. She doesn’t strike me as a girl that suggests compassion. I think I envy her... I… — Henry James Copy Share Image
In America, even the critics - which is a pity - tend to genre-ize things. They have a hard time when genres… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
“I had great pity on Ansje, because she always acted very happy, but I believed that it was really a front. I… — Diet Eman Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the heart's impatience to… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“No, no -- no pity, please," said Rumfoord, stepping back, afraid of being touched. "It's a very good thing, really. I'll be… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When you see a condemned man on his way to the gallows, it moves you to pity. If you could do something… — Anthony Mary Claret Copy Share Image
“Self-pity NEVER leads to happiness. Avoid it like it's a zombie plague.” — Ace Antonio Hall Copy Share Image
Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity. — Ida Rentoul Outhwaite Copy Share Image
It's a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel prize. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“If you are wise, you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I once read about a guy who lost his arms in a fire. The nurse took pity on him and gave him… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“However powerfully pity affects us, it nevertheless saves us in a way from the primordial suffering of the world, just” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Above all others I pity the homeless: where can they go to masturbate? — Robert Clark Copy Share Image
“Oh, yes, he’d spent a good portion of his day in self-pity. And now? Now he felt shame.” — Cathy Maxwell Copy Share Image
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
You shouldn't wallow in self-pity. But it's OK to put your feet in it and swish them around a little. — Dick Guindon Copy Share Image
