O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn't the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn't… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There… — Marat Safin Copy Share Image
We did not adopt socialism out of books, abstractions, humanism, or pity, but rather out of need for the Arab working class… — Michel Aflaq Copy Share Image
Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Happy?" asked Aquilina, with dreadful look, and a smile full of pity and terror. "Ah, you do not know what it is… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
He was addicted to me and now he has gone cold turkey. He used to send me fifty texts a day. And… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
Sure you can manage that broom, Potter?" said a cold, drawling voice. Draco Malfoy had arrived for a closer look, Crabbe and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I've built many doorways and set out traps so that no one will be able to reach this place. That's what the… — Mizuki Nomura Copy Share Image
Tears drop from my eyes as I find myself thinking of you. I cry because I doubt you thinking of me too.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I gaze into the stars, they look down upon me with pity from their serene and silent spaces, like eyes glistening… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Pitiful and pitied by no one, why have I come to the ignominy of this detestable old age, who was ruler of… — Eleanor of Aquitaine Copy Share Image
Human beings of all societies in all periods of history believe that their ideas on the nature of the real world are… — Edward Robert Harrison Copy Share Image
As with all great teachers, his curriculum was an insignificant part of what he communicated. From him you didn't learn a subject,… — William Alexander Percy Copy Share Image
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I almost pity them. I think I have a freedom they cannot understand. No insult, no blame can touch me. Because… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality. — John W Gardner Copy Share Image
I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
“He wishes he could remember everything. Anything. He doesn’t sense a bone in his body that can feel compassion or worthiness. Self-pity… — Christy A. Campbell Copy Share Image
There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
“People who play the victim role in their lives love to feel self-pity. They want you to think that what “happened” to… — Brooke Castillo Copy Share Image
The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her,… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Pity is like lust ... both like to masquerade as love and it's powerfully hard to know the difference when you're in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Another year in prison, promise this is it for me. Tryna make it through the storm, should be makin history. No feelin… — TI Copy Share Image
A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quicky than reason or… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren--and so it is; and so is… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Some things take so long But how do I explain When not too many people Can see we're all the same And… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix… — Matthew Van Zyl Copy Share Image
“When no one was watching, he allowed himself a moment of self-pity. Maybe this was all he deserved, to be used and… — Barbara Elsborg Copy Share Image
I didn't even think of my breasts in a nostalgic way, I just wanted to be able to live my life without… — Sharon Osbourne Copy Share Image
Yet, ironically, it is her very wretchedness that makes me pity her so. I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't… — Christopher Pike Copy Share Image
We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Oh may He look on us with love and pity and then we shall be able to do anything He wishes us… — Catherine McAuley Copy Share Image
![“Pitiful and pitied by no one, why have I come to the ignominy of this detestable old age, who was ruler of two kingdoms, mother of two kings? My guts are torn from me, my family is carried off and removed from me. The young king [crown prince Henry, †1183] and the count of Britanny [prince…” quote by Eleanor of Aquitaine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/015/eleanor-of-aquitaine-52379_death-wish_pitiful-and-pitied-by-no-one-why-have-i_796292.png)
