“Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's. — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
I don't want people to feel sorry for me, I want them to realize how strong I am. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
In extreme danger fear feels no pity. [Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.] — Julius Caesar Copy Share Image
“I had become so distant from my true self that I was not even capable of self-pity.” — Cezmi Ersöz Copy Share Image
Jesus made me, so he should save me from pity, sympathy and idiots discussing me. — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
God is looking for those with whom He can do the impossible - what a pity that we plan only the things… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity! Or remorse or fear and it absolutely will… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
Some men make gain a fountain, whence proceeds A stream of liberal and heroic deeds; The swell of pity, not to be… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“There is something in that name that seems to inspire absolute confidence. I pity any poor woman whose husband is not called… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I wasn't offering her pity," Mrs. Caswell said impatiently. "Tragedies don't interest me, tragedies and heartbreaks are all alike, what matters is… — Dorothy Gilman Copy Share Image
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Life's very difficult and full of surprises. At all events, I've got as far as that. To be humble and kind, to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold. No ripple on the river, no stir in field or… — William Morris Copy Share Image
It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Without courage, honor, compassion, pity, love and sacrifice, as William Faulkner pointed out, we know not of love, but lust. We debase… — Earl Hamner, Jr Copy Share Image
He made the earth first and peopled it with dumb creatures, and then He created man to be His overseer on the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image