Nora Quote by Elizabeth Isaacs

“Pity is such an awful, useless emotion- you have to bottle it up and keep it to yourself.The moment you try to express it,…

— Paul Auster

“Pity is such a shabby thing. I can torment myself with wanting to feel pity, and yet I don't succeed.”

— Victor Klemperer

“Dont pity people who don't pity themselves, it's unpleasant to repeatedly hear how miserable and unfortunate they are.”

— Ilan Grif

“Pity can be a powerful tool. Anytime you can make someone else feel something, you’ve got power over them.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“Pity is a useless emotion”

— Jackson Pearce

“Hearken to my story. Listen but do not pity me. For pity is intended for the weak and I am still strong in my…

— Khalil Gibran

“Pity. What a useless emotion when you don't act on it. Pity is supposed to trigger compassion.”

— Lish McBride

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

— John Updike

“I’ve never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion. We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn’t matter. Life…

— Randy Pausch

“I fucking hated pity. It was a wasted emotion.”

— Ilsa Madden-Mills

“If I have learned anything it is that pity is more intelligent than hatred, that mercy is better than justice, that if one walks…

— Philip Gibbs

“However powerfully pity affects us, it nevertheless saves us in a way from the primordial suffering of the world, just”

— Friedrich Nietzsche