Adversity Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft

Of all the well-meant emotions pity is the cruelest to share.

— Joan Slonczewski

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

I believe, in general, that even people that are self-pitying, you can feel for them.

— Mike White

Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.

— Bolesław Prus

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

— Andre Maurois

Pity melts the mind to love.

— John Dryden

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

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

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“So true it is, and so terrible too, that up to a certain point the thought or sight of misery enlists our best affections;…

— Herman Melville

If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.

— George Bernard Shaw