Self-pity is the campsite of self-defeat; it is a dark refuge for those parts of us that would rather wallow in what… — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Is that what you are going to do when someone tries to take your life from you? Or the lives of your… — Adam Burch Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche believed that if Pity were to become the core of ethics, misery would become contagious and happiness an object of suspicion” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Tell me I'm a sinner I got news for you I spoke to God this morning and he don't like you! Don't… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
“Yossarian was moved by such intense pity for his poverty that he wanted to smash his pale. sad, sickly face with his… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
That's a pretty story,' said Afanasievna as she let go of Ansky's genitals. 'A pity I'm too old and have seen to… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“I don't find it funny, I just think self-pity's probably not the answer.' ‘It’s not self-pity, it’s the facts.’ ‘My life is… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“But, imbued from her childhood with a brooding sense of wrong, and an inveterate hatred of a class, opportunity had developed her… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
So a Holocaust-denying, virulently anti-Semitic, aspiring genocidist, on the verge of acquiring weapons of the apocalypse, believes that the end is not… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am glad you are no relation of mine. I will never call you aunt again as long as I live. I… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
It always seems to me that one of the saddest things about the death of a literary man is the fact that… — Stuart Dodgson Collingwood Copy Share Image
“She laughed harshly. “I don’t need pity from the likes of you, little island fox. Pity is for the weak.” Silence spun… — Lesley Livingston Copy Share Image
What will be the judgment a century hence concerning the lorded works of our favorite composers today? Inasmuch as nearly everything is… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
“I have not slept for nights. I have not eaten for days. I am a soul in torment. Tell me if you… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
What a pity it is that there are so many words! Whenever one wants to say anything, three or four ways of… — Julius Charles Hare Copy Share Image
O thou who art able to write a book which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
People seem to think themselves in some ways superior to heaven itself, when they complain of the sorrow and want round about… — Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie Copy Share Image
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
I've covered a lot of the British countryside and the UK from top to bottom and side to side. It's such a… — Alan Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Anyone who says "we must try to understand" those who make life miserable for those undeserving of misery is abiding and abetting… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
“In the middle of this poor life, we are surrounded by mystery, and the pity of it is that we would rather… — Jennifer Stevenson Copy Share Image
An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment… — Charlotte Bingham Copy Share Image
In the field of controversy I always pity the moderate party, who stand on the open middle ground exposed to the fire… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
With all the other -isms that we deal with, that sort of nameless -ism that we have in too many of our… — Benjamin Todd Jealous Copy Share Image
So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
The Irish tell the story of a man who arrives at the gates of heaven and asks to be let in St.… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture…He takes upon himself… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I've held a lot of pity parties for myself. There was a time when I never wanted to face the public again.… — Anita Bryant Copy Share Image
“I find it tiresome when people parade their agonies for public viewing; the last thing I want to evoke is pity. We… — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
We work with the people not out of pity but out of respect for their potential for growth and development, both as… — Y. C. James Yen Copy Share Image
We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The original sin of Republicans is greed. Everyone understands greed. Everybody wants to get theirs. The original sin of Democrats is pity.… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
Speech is a powerful master and achieves the most divine feats with the smallest and least evident body. It can stop fear,… — Gorgias Copy Share Image
“Those who hate, are merely wallowing in self pity. Those who lie about someone to destroy his or her spirit, are simply… — Emma Paul Copy Share Image
