Brows Quote by Pietro Metastasio

If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear to be…

— Pietro Metastasio

We see how much a man has, and therefore we envy him; did we see how little he enjoys, we should rather pity him.

— Jeremiah Seed

Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.

— Edward Bond

Self-pity - it's the only pity that counts.

— Oscar Levant

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

— Mark Twain

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

— D. H. Lawrence

For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.

— Halldór Laxness

Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others.

— Mason Cooley

Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.

— William Blake

I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless…

— William Cowper

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

— Ann Radcliffe

“If there is one thing worse than self-pity, it was other people's pity.”

— C.J. Duggan