Littles Quote by Mary Oliver

Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong.

— Edwin Arnold

Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.

— Edwin Arnold

Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.

— D. H. Lawrence

Pity's akin to love; and every thought Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul.

— Thomas Southerne

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.

— Andre Maurois

...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.

— Flannery O'Connor

How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!

— Ann Radcliffe

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

Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?

— William Shakespeare

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

— Theodore Dreiser

It will become a pity when you fail to carry out your responsibility as a mortal human being, that Mr. pity can never pity…

— My

It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche