Benefactors Quote by Mark Twain

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.

— Mark Twain

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

Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride, and have no prospect of great conquests: the easy prey -…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is pity but the vice of kindness.

— Emile M. Cioran

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

Do not pity the dead but pity the living, and, above all those who live without love

— J K Rowling

Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary…

— Mark Twain

Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity is the…

— Jane Austen

There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the heart's impatience to be rid…

— Stefan Zweig

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

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

— Eugene H. Peterson

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