Enemy Quote by Charles Sumner

There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the heart's impatience to be rid…

— Stefan Zweig

Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others. It is a delicate foresight of the troubles into which…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them the easy…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride, and have no prospect of great conquests: the easy prey -…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.

— Clarence Darrow

Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison.

— John Frederick Boyes

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads…

— Richard Wright

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and…

— Mark Twain

We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.

— Luc de Clapiers

Pity makes suffering contagious.

— Friedrich Nietzsche