People Quote by Katherine Anne Porter Download Open image “We pity people too often for the wrong reasons.” — Katherine Anne Porter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare People Pity Reason Wrong reasons
We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters which may… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Many are those who pity others while being blind to their own misfortunes. — Shinjo Ito Copy Share Image
Some of them may well even be true. But, to pity oneself as a result of them is to do oneself an enormous disservice. — Superman Copy Share Image
Pity is the feeling of well-intentioned people who are unable to act. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
“Stop constantly pity other people for how unfortunate and miserable they are, it's unpleasent to hear that repeadetly. A man who do not pity… — Fergus MacDermott Copy Share Image
“Dont pity people who don't pity themselves, it's unpleasant to repeatedly hear how miserable and unfortunate they are.” — Ilan Grif Copy Share Image
There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
The human heart is not yet so corroded that it can read off the extinction of these two men without a shock to the… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things,… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
I started out with nothing in the world but a kind of passion, a driving desire. I don't know where it came from, and… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
I am in Paris. Yes ma'am , I made it back. I came up from Berlin, stopped here ten days, fought a losing battle… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Your mind outwears all sorts of things you may set your heart upon; you can enjoy it when all other things are taken away. — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
The arts do live continuously, and they live literally by faith; their names and their shapes and their uses and their basic meanings survive… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
The very thing about people that makes the human race interesting is also the thing that makes it so hard to get anything done… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
If I am going to be phased out by whatever powers, then I want people to know that it is not because I am… — Parvathy Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music. — Big Sean Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I… — Lorde Copy Share Image
