It is in the book of man, not the book of god, that we must look for examples of heroism, love, pity,… — M. M. Mangasarian Copy Share Image
It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Love is the only thing that pays for birth, Or makes death welcome. Oh, dear God above This beautiful but sad, perplexing… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
“To me [Edgar Allan Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“For those constantly full of joy, they sometimes feel a little guilty for always feeling so good. That guilt is compassion: it… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Give me ... a compassionate heart, quickly moved to grieve for the woes of others and to active pity for them, even… — Johann Arndt Copy Share Image
Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are… — Henry James Copy Share Image
They that examine into the Nature of Man, abstract from Art and Education, may observe, that what renders him a Sociable Animal,… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“. . . And she said it was a pity, because my father was so “keen”, and what did I care about?… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Being able to play tragedy for humor rather than pity is a new trick I've learned. For a long time that's what… — Bucky Sinister Copy Share Image
What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!' Pity? It was Pity that stayed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“God is no respecter of either persons or names - Dieu or Gott or Kyrie or Adonai or Wakantanka. He is the… — S.M. Stirling Copy Share Image
I've never been heckled. I think because I look too small and vulnerable. Sometimes I look out into the audience and see… — Amy Hoggart Copy Share Image
Are we not to pity and supply the poor, though they have no relation to us? No relation? That cannot be. The… — Thomas Sprat Copy Share Image
Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Self-pity is, perhaps, the least becoming of all emotions, and we often indulge in it only beause we are too exhausted to… — Ivy Baker Priest Copy Share Image
They love the country, and none else, who seek For their own sake its silence and its shade. Delights which who would… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Self-pity is the worst poverty. When a person says, 'I am...' with pity, before he has said anything more he has diminished… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
To me Vivien Leigh was a tragic heroine of classic proportions: chosen, blessed and abandoned by the gods. Obstinately she tried to… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictions, he cried, in his outraged pity: 'If… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
When you get down to the nitty gritty, isn't it a pity that in this big city not one little bitty man… — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When I die, people will say it is the best thing for me. It is because they know it is the worst.… — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
“If a man is to have a fault, it should be a passionate one, like insatiable curiosity. It would be a pity… — Gary Jennings Copy Share Image
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Nothing but real love--(how rare it is; has one human heart in a million ever known it?) nothing but real love can… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The state of your heart dictates whether you harbor a grudge or give grace, seek self-pity or seek Christ, drink human misery… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“Rhysand stared at me for long enough that I faced him. "Be glad of your human heart, Feyre. Pity those who don't… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“Hard times' is a phrase the English love to use, when speaking of Africa. And it is easy to forget that Africa's… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
![“To me [Edgar Allan Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.” quote by Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/370/mark-twain-22_allan-poe_to-me-edgar-allan-poe-s-prose-is-unreada_175729.png)
