The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The Christian pities men because they are dying, and the Buddhist pities them because they are living. The Christian is sorry for… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Resentment is, in every stage of the passion, painful, but it is not disagreeable, unless in excess; pity is always painful, yet… — Alec Douglas-Home Copy Share Image
Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
I have given orders to my Death units to exterminate without mercy or pity men, women and children belonging to the Polish… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Yes, but what is it good for? What does it mean?” Her look was full of pity. “If you have to ask… — John Varley Copy Share Image
“Outrage is like a lot of other things that feel good but over time devour us from the inside out. And it’s… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
The Pope, if nothing else, should be a Catholic. If he were to announce that women would make great priests, except it's… — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image
“He had no name for it in the language of Ka; there was no name for it because he was the first… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
I have mastered many things in my life. Navigating the streets of London, speaking French without an accent, dancing the quadrille, the… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I give great thanks to God that he has created a Dalai Lama. Do you really think, as some have argued, that… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Many years ago, when I was once saying sadly to Max it was a pity I couldn't have taken up archaeology when… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“The moment you tell someone else is the moment you become a whiner and the world’s smallest violin starts to play. The… — J.A. Redmerski Copy Share Image
As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Faith is powerful enough to immunize people against all appeals to pity, to forgiveness, to decent human feelings. It even immunizes them… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
“Whenever she saw in others an advantage, however trivial, which she herself lacked, she would persuade herself that it was no advantage… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
When the red wrath perisheth, when the dulled swords fail, These three who have walked with Death these shall prevail. Hell bade… — Theodosia Garrison Copy Share Image
When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most important— self-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity,… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
I'm not going to sit here and say, 'Pity me; I came from modeling.' It's opened a lot of doors. People will… — Brooklyn Decker Copy Share Image
The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves… — John Berger Copy Share Image
You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
“Congratulations. You've just been demoted from the "pity" sector to the "apathy" sector. To check the validity of this offer you can… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
Even in the midst of compassion we feel within I know not what tart sweet titillation of malicious pleasure in seeing others… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Never try to understand the students. They hate it. They would much rather be tragically misunderstood, wallow in self-pity, stew in their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ultimately one has to pity these poor souls who know every secret about writing, directing, designing, producing, and acting but are stuck… — David Ives Copy Share Image
“Lord take pity on the Christian who doubts, on the unbeliever who would fain believe, on the galley slave of life who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ah! some love Paris, / And some Purdue. / But love is an archer with a low I.Q. / A bold, bad… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Love is ruthless; it doesn't feel sorry for anyone, but it does have compassion. Fear is full of pity; it feels sorry… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
During a photo-call with fellow Olympic gold medallist Duncan Goodhew- Pity Steve Ovett didn't show up. Then we could have had the… — Daley Thompson Copy Share Image
