Around the world Quote by Philip Gibbs

“Pity is an emotion that should have never been created. Pity was strong and could break the backs of people fighting for survival and…

— Elizabeth Isaacs

“As if pity is, as he has been taught, not a helpless outcry but a powerful tide that could redeem the world...”

— John Updike

“Kindness is the most important thing of all. Pity is an insult. Kindness is a miracle.”

— Patrick Ness

“Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“My parents, teachers, and the culture I grew up in showed me a drawer in which to stuff my merciful nature, because mercy made…

— Anne Lamott

“It is no small pity, and should cause us no little shame, that, through our own fault, we do not understand ourselves, or know…

— Teresa of Ávila

“To be cold and incapable of pity is one thing; to have compassion and use it only when it's convenient is nothing less than…

— Stacey Jay

“there is nothing worse than pity. It just makes you feel guiltier.”

— Ava Dellaira

“However powerfully pity affects us, it nevertheless saves us in a way from the primordial suffering of the world, just”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“For happy are the merciful for they shall, too, know mercy.”

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

“Pity is such an awful, useless emotion- you have to bottle it up and keep it to yourself.The moment you try to express it,…

— Paul Auster

“Mercy means that we no longer constantly judge everybody’s large and tiny failures, foolish hearts, dubious convictions, and inevitable bad behavior. We will never…

— Anne Lamott