Comfortable Quote by John Steinbeck

“Fitting is a luxury rarely given to immigrants, or children of immigrants. We are stuck in emotional purgatory. Home, somehow, is always the last…

— Scaachi Koul

“It was as though the people needed the ugliness of the village, and fed on it. The houses and the stores seemed to have…

— Shirley Jackson

“But while the residents were shocked by the violence, they were also often surprised by the mundaneness of it all. Discovered the extent of…

— Kiran Desai

I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find…

— Gary Lineker

I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first.

— Anonymous

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

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of…

— Dorothy Dix

Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.

— Jose Marti

First they put away the dealers, then they put away the prostitutes, then they shooed away the bums, and beat and bashed the queers.…

— Peyton Sawyer

“Gentleness was sometimes perilously close to pity.”

— Julie Anne Long

Before we commiserate with others, right pity ourselves before others sympathetic to our plight

— EwaN Here's IXII

To show pity is felt as a sign of contempt because one has clearly ceased to be an object of fear as soon as…

— Friedrich Nietzsche