Pity Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Pity Self Self pity Sympathy
Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing. — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more… — Kevin Malarkey Copy Share Image
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have found that the best cure for self pity is to do something to help someone else. — Carl Orr 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
Self-pity is one of the most dangerous forms of self-centeredness. It fogs our vision. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Self-pity is, perhaps, the least becoming of all emotions, and we often indulge in it only beause we are too exhausted to resist. — Ivy Baker Priest Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
It's a pity that there's such a negative connotation about paying for sex. — Annie Sprinkle Copy Share Image
But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had--yea, and that among very wise men--to find out rather a cunning man for their… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whoever will not love his enemies cannot know the Lord and the sweetness of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit teaches us to love… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
Pity the planet, all joy gone from this sweet volcanic cone; peace to our children when they fall in small war on the heel… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
It's really a pity that there are observers who view political events like comic strips. There has to be a Zorro, there has to… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts… — Abby May Alcott Copy Share Image
