Clouds Quote by E. M. Forster

Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.

— Eugene H. Peterson

Pity makes suffering contagious.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.

— Graham Greene

Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with…

— James Joyce

Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others.

— Mason Cooley

“The sick person becomes very adept at distinguishing between compassion and pity. Compassion is someone else’s suffering flaring in your own nerves. Pity is…

— Christian Wiman

Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

O, if there be any kind of life most sad, and deepest in the scale of pity, it is the dry, cold impotence of…

— Horace Bushnell

Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction

— Virgil

Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.

— D. H. Lawrence

“As if pity is, as he has been taught, not a helpless outcry but a powerful tide that could redeem the world...”

— John Updike

Pity's akin to love; and every thought Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul.

— Thomas Southerne