Pitying Quotes
37 quotes by 33 authors
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Dream Song of Thunders: Sometimes I go about pitying Myself, While I am carried by the wind Across the sky.
— Frances Densmore
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Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us…
— Richard Wright
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I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.
— Truman Capote
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Sooner or later, fate puts us together with all the people, one by one, who show us what we could, and shouldn’t, let ourselves become.…
— Gregory David Roberts
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Just how many sisters do you have? (Valerius) Eight. (Tabitha) Eight? (Valerius) What? (Tabitha) I'm just pitying whatever poor males lived in that house with…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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...Emma Morley wasn't such a paragon either: pretentious, petulant, lazy, speechifying, judgmental. Self-pitying, self righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she…
— David Nicholls
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I won't talk to you about my family and you won't talk to me about yours. Family talk is either boring or self-pitying. Or it's…
— Chaim Potok
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Get away from my ex-girlfriend, you moany little whinge-bag.' Caelen took a deep breath, like he was in pain, and stood up. His voice was…
— Derek Landy
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Starvation!" exclaimed the abbe, springing from his seat. "Why, the vilest animals are not suffered to die by such a death as that. The very…
— Alexandre Dumas
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They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pitying, all of which are indications…
— James Allen
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You are being self-pitying." "I'm nearly done. You don't have much more of this to bear." "I like you better this way." "Crushed and broken,"…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book.…
— Susan Cain
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And maybe you should stop pitying yourself,†he said. “Most people are lucky to have even one great love in their life. You have found…
— Cassandra Clare
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What separates the would-be successful persons from everybody else? Simple. When faced with a destructive obstacle, the former think of solutions and ways on how…
— Myron Sta Ana
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Nobody wants to hang around a person who has a self-pitying, pessimistic outlook on life.
— Senoraroy
Who Wrote These Pitying Quotes
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