I pity those who have no taste for reading. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
“No pity for these things, there is no pity but mine, oh father, for the pity of your butchering rawblood death.” — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“For all the luxuries available to today’s American children, in their nerdy bike helmets, I pity them.” — Dan Johns Copy Share Image
Misery loves company, but it hates confidence. Be bold enough to say NO to anyone who invites you to a pity party. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have found that the best cure for self pity is to do something to help someone else. — Carl Orr Copy Share Image
“How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then” — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I fix mine eye on thine, and there Pity my picture burning in thine eye...” — John Donne Copy Share Image
Neither love me for Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry, A creature might forget to weep, who bore Thy comfort… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
The Great slight the men of wit, who have nothing but wit; the men of wit despise the Great, who have nothing… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Do you know...what I think is a great pity? It is this: that we have all become such skeptics that we hardly… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some… — John Keats Copy Share Image
He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination.… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The army slew a thousand and showed little pity The king ordered fealty from the conquered city The prince charmed its people… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
self-sacrifice is one of a woman's seven deadly sins (along with self-abuse, self-loathing, self-deception, self-pity, self-serving, and self-immolation). — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow… — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
“He saw her right after the seventh-period bell rang. She seemed dressed for the sole purpose of blending in with the lockers,… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: By killing, man… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder-but… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Pity the nation that needs to jail those who… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Why the hell does everything seem to always want to fall apart right when it's almost put back together? It's official I… — Justin Lee Riner Copy Share Image
The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When one has praised Turgenev, however, for the beauty of his character and the beautiful truth of his art, one remembers that… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
