Guiding light Quote by Jonathan Coe

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

— John Updike

“For the first time in his life he knew the bitterest sort of misfortune, misfortune beyond remedy, misfortune his own fault.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Crying and hoping that someone will feel pity, is folly. Rise and do something to escape your evil predicament”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“Every misfortune is a blessing in disguise.”

— Laurie Nadel

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“We misfits are the ones with the ability to enter grief. Death. Trauma. And emerge.”

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“Misfortune is liable to make me a damn bad man”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“A sigh or tear perhaps she'll give, But love on pity cannot live: Tell her that hearts for hearts were made, And love with…

— John Dryden

“ To Hear the Falling World Only if I move my arm a certain way, it comes back. Or the way the light bends…

— Jane Hirshfield

“At least we're companions in misfortune”

— Dodie Smith

“To all going though despair and turmoil in their lives, you must keep the faith to see the calm beyond your troubles and the…

— Timothy Pina

“I beg you, alight and join your sorrow with mine: misfortune wanders everywhere, and settles now upon one and now upon another.”

— Aeschylus