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Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing. Votes: 4

Josh Billings

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Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe. Votes: 4

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature. Votes: 4

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other. Votes: 4

Oliver Goldsmith

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible. Votes: 4

Elizabeth Bowen

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Pity is treason. Votes: 3

Maximilien Robespierre

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Pity's tears are spontaneous. Votes: 3

Anna Cora Mowatt

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Pity drowns in numbers. Votes: 3

Mason Cooley

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Pity enlarges the heart. Votes: 3

Francois Fenelon

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Pity makes suffering contagious. Votes: 3

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Pity is woman's sweetest charm. Votes: 3

Honore de Balzac

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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys. Votes: 3

Graham Greene

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Pity is love in undress. Votes: 3

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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Pity is a corroding thing. Votes: 3

Martha Graham

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Pity is akin to love. Votes: 3

Thomas Southerne

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Pity and friendship seek different habitations. Votes: 3

Helen Hunt

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Pity is always twinged with disgust. Votes: 3

Daniel Quinn

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Pity womankind, but never a woman. Votes: 3

Warren Eyster

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Pity is something only weakness wants. Votes: 3

Mabel Seeley

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Pity makes a thin drink, indeed. Votes: 3

Caroline Pafford Miller

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Pity melts the mind to love. Votes: 3

John Dryden

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Pity swells the tide of love. Votes: 3

Edward Young

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Mercy, Pity, Peace Is the world's release. Votes: 3

William Blake

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Pity is a benign form of abuse. Votes: 3

Michael J. Fox

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Pity is exhaustible. What a terrible discovery! Votes: 3

Enid Bagnold

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Pity is like eating mustard without beef. Votes: 3

Augustus Hare

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Pity those who don't feel anything at all Votes: 3

Sarah J. Maas

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Two things control man's character; Strength and Pity Votes: 3

Swami Vivekananda

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Pity it is to slay the meanest thing. Votes: 3

Thomas Hood

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Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes. Votes: 3

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Pity. It seems determined to follow me everywhere. Votes: 3

Ari Marmell

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How's Her Royal Bitchiness?" "Alive." "Pity. Votes: 3

Nalini Singh

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Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing. Votes: 3

Josh Billings

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Pity is easy, but it is difficult to care. Votes: 3

Ray Davies

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Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Votes: 3

Don Marquis

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Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent. Votes: 3

Ayn Rand

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Pity, unlike hate, can be boxed and put away. Votes: 3

Jessie Burton

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Pity and forbearance should characterize all acts of justice. Votes: 3

Benjamin Franklin

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Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Votes: 3

Mark Twain

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Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave. Votes: 3

Franz Grillparzer

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Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent." -Kahlan Votes: 3

Terry Goodkind

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Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments. Votes: 3

Bryan Procter

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Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions! Votes: 3

George Eliot

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Pity those who seek for shepherds, instead of longing for freedom! Votes: 3

Paulo Coelho

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Pity the married couple who expect too much from one another. Votes: 3

Ruth Graham

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Pity the planet, all joy gone from this sweet volcanic cone Votes: 3

Robert Lowell

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Pity that the only way to paradise is in a hearse. Votes: 3

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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Pity the poor infant. Born perfect into the world from imperfect parents. Votes: 3

Cynthia Heimel

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Pity those who cannot say: Thy will be done not mine, today. Votes: 3

Elaine A. Cannon

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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman. Votes: 3

Vicki Baum

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Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies! Votes: 3

Amos Bronson Alcott

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Did I kill him?" said. "No, miss,â said Robert. "Pity. Votes: 3

Franny Billingsley

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Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness. Votes: 3

Fanny Fern

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Pity is the feeling of well-intentioned people who are unable to act. Votes: 3

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

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Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear. Votes: 3

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing. Votes: 3

Eugene H. Peterson

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Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient. Votes: 3

BolesÅaw Prus

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Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis. Votes: 3

Eloise Jarvis McGraw

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Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Votes: 3

Arundhati Roy

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Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood. Votes: 3

Edwin Arnold

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Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. Votes: 3

Jim Rohn

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Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest. Votes: 3

Francis Beaumont

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Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong. Votes: 3

Edwin Arnold

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Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness. Votes: 3

Amy Lowell

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Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel. Votes: 3

Samuel Johnson

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Nothing but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life. Votes: 3

Joseph Henry

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Pity the poor millionaire. He'll never know the thrill of paying that final installment. Votes: 3

Ann Landers

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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays. Votes: 3

John Dryden

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Pity is not enough better than indifference to benefit materially either agent or recipient. Votes: 3

Charles Henry Parkhurst

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I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child. Votes: 3

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead. Votes: 3

William Collins

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Pity that child who was born near Rouen,His only crime, to arrive deformed. Votes: 3

E.A. Bucchianeri

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Pity does not get you aid. Admiration at your refusal to give in does. Votes: 3

Suzanne Collins

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Tears have a better character cried alone. Pity can sometimes be more wolf than dog. Votes: 3

Sebastian Barry

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Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed. Votes: 3

Charles Caleb Colton

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Pity arises when we are sorry for someone.Compassion is when we understand and help wisely. Votes: 3

Gautama Buddha

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Pity me that the heart is slow to learnWhat the swift mind beholds at every turn. Votes: 3

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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This train of thought was heading straight for Pity City, and she wanted to get off. Votes: 3

Lauren Kate

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Pity for him who one day looks uponhis inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost. Votes: 3

Ruben Dario

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Pity's akin to love; and every thought Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul. Votes: 3

Thomas Southerne

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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean.Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go. Votes: 3

Anne Carson

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Pity.""You're serious? You just met me.""And already I have a strong urge to devour you. Votes: 3

Christina Lauren

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Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love. Votes: 3

J. K. Rowling

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They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation. Votes: 3

Arthur Helps

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If Pity come as Pity, bid her stay; But if in guise of Love, chase her away. Votes: 3

Richard B. Garnett

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I heard an Angel singing; When the day was springing, Mercy, Pity, Peace; Is the world's release. Votes: 3

William Blake

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Religion is an edifice built upon the dream of a beautiful world... Pity the dreamers are rarely builders. Votes: 3

Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal

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Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests. Votes: 3

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth. Votes: 3

E. M. Forster

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Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se. Votes: 3

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house! Votes: 3

Jerry Lewis

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Pity you can't attach an extra arm to your [broom], Malfoy. Then it could catch the Snitch for you. Votes: 3

J. K. Rowling

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Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, Look upon a little child; Pity my simplicity, Suffer me to come to thee. Votes: 3

Charles Wesley

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Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's. Votes: 3

Jonathan Tropper

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Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love. Votes: 3

Laurell K. Hamilton

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To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. Votes: 3

William Blake

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I had to work in one of the most beautiful ski resorts in the world for almost three weeks. Pity me. Votes: 3

David Duchovny

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For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress. Votes: 3

William Blake

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Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save. Votes: 3

Edwin Arlington Robinson

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The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity. Votes: 3

George Eliot

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Pity is sworn servant unto love: And this be sure, wherever it begin To make the way, it lets your master in. Votes: 3

Willa Cather

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Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we. Votes: 3

William Blake

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Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed. Votes: 3

Henry David Thoreau

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I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process. Votes: 3

Benjamin Harrison

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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. Votes: 3

Bertrand Russell

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If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. Votes: 3

Francis of Assisi

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Soft pity enters an iron gate. Votes: 2

William Shakespeare

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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. Votes: 2

Andre Maurois

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Those who do not complain are never pitied. Votes: 2

Jane Austen

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It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity. Votes: 2

Lyman Abbott

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Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal. Votes: 2

Voltaire

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To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most. Votes: 2

Miguel de Unamuno

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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. Votes: 2

George Eliot

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Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable. Votes: 2

Maya Angelou

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It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos. Votes: 2

Manly Hall

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Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. Votes: 2

Helen Keller

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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. Votes: 2

Andre Maurois

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Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while, a great wind is bearing me across the sky. Votes: 2

Ellen Gilchrist

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Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self. Votes: 2

Millicent Fenwick

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Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality. Votes: 2

John Gardner

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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. Votes: 2

D. H. Lawrence

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Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. Votes: 2

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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If you repeat your negative memories in your mind and feel self-pity, then YOU are both the abuser and the victim - not those who wronged you in the past. Your present and future will be happier if you take control of your thoughts. Votes: 2

Maddy Malhotra

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Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat... Never take yourself too seriously. Votes: 2

Og Mandino

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It's a mistake to confuse pity with love. Votes: 1

Stanley Kubrick

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I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion. Votes: 1

Randy Pausch

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To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike. Votes: 1

Horace Mann

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It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian. Votes: 1

Manfred von Richthofen

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My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Votes: 1

Wilfred Owen

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The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don't bring presents. Votes: 1

Zig Ziglar

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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's. Votes: 1

Olin Miller

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I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control. Votes: 1

Muriel Spark

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I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend. Votes: 1

Joyce Meyer

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Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company. Votes: 1

Arthur Schopenhauer

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The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and never have the thrill of victory. Votes: 1

Jonathan Kozol

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Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. Votes: 1

Nelson Mandela

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Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity. Votes: 1

Chris Van Allsburg

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I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being. Votes: 1

Theodore Roosevelt

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It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon. Votes: 1

Marat Safin

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People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand why they find me so annoying but they do. It is pity, but that is how it is. Votes: 1

Ian Hamilton Finlay

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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. Votes: 1

W. E. B. Du Bois

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize. Votes: 1

Stephen Covey

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There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish. Votes: 1

John Keats

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Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your experiences to shed light, you may feel wrenching pain, grief, anger, or shame. Your audience may pity you, but not because you want them to. Votes: 1

Martha Beck

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The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit. Votes: 1

Nikola Tesla

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Don't ever pity me. Votes: 0

Simone Elkeles

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All pity is self-pity. Votes: 0

W. H. Auden

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Self-pity shortens your life ... Votes: 0

Joan Rivers

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Self-pity makes people callous. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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self-pity is better than none. Votes: 0

Phyllis Diller

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Self-pity does not appreciate pedantry. Votes: 0

Alexander McCall Smith

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Self-pity is the simplest luxury. Votes: 0

Rita Mae Brown

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Have pity on a dinosaur. Votes: 0

Hank Williams, Jr.

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Contempt mates well with pity. Votes: 0

Gloria Naylor

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God pity the poor novelist. Votes: 0

Steven Millhauser

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Kind pity chokes my spleen. Votes: 0

John Donne

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Holidays - Have no pity. Votes: 0

Eugenio Montale

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Do not pity the dead, Harry. Votes: 0

J. K. Rowling

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nothing is so binding as pity. Votes: 0

Alice Tisdale Hobart

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God has pity on kindergarten children Votes: 0

Yehuda Amichai

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A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Christianity is called the religion of pity. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness. Votes: 0

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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The unfortunate do not pity the unfortunate. Votes: 0

Josh Billings

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Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness. Votes: 0

L.M. Montgomery

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too great pity is the greatest cruelty. Votes: 0

St. Catherine of Siena

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Guilt stirs me, but only to self-pity. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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Sensual excess drives out pity in man. Votes: 0

Marquis de Sade

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Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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The sea has neither meaning nor pity. Votes: 0

Anton Chekhov

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A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity. Votes: 0

Joseph Addison

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Reform is born of need, not pity. Votes: 0

Rebecca Harding Davis

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Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics. Votes: 0

Sebastian Horsley

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The opposite of having faith is having self-pity. Votes: 0

Os Guinness

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Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Mercy, pity, and peace, Are the world's release. Votes: 0

William Blake

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Charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Votes: 0

Mother Teresa

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Almost all women have hearts full of pity. Votes: 0

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Showing you pity doesn't do you any favors. Votes: 0

Jillian Michaels

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One grows out of pity when it's useless. Votes: 0

Albert Camus

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What is pity but the vice of kindness. Votes: 0

Emile M. Cioran

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It is better to arouse envy than pity. Votes: 0

Publilius Syrus

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Do not envy the rich; pity them. Matthew 19:24. Votes: 0

Felix Wantang

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Self-pity can make one weep, as can onions. Votes: 0

Jerry Fodor

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For pity's sake, don't start meeting troubles halfway. Votes: 0

Teresa of Avila

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Were't not for laughing, I should pity him. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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Self-pity - it's the only pity that counts. Votes: 0

Oscar Levant

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Divine punishment is at once followed by Divine pity. Votes: 0

Joseph Hertz

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Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness. Votes: 0

Earl Nightingale

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The firm basis of government is justice, not pity. Votes: 0

Woodrow Wilson

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The Justice of today is born of yesterday's pity. Votes: 0

Julia Lathrop

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These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly. Votes: 0

Izaak Walton

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kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake. Votes: 0

Barbara Mertz

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His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle. Votes: 0

James Russell Lowell

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We pity people too often for the wrong reasons. Votes: 0

Katherine Anne Porter

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pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music. Votes: 0

Francoise Sagan

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To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain. Votes: 0

Herman Melville

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Just so you're clear, that wasn't a pity kiss. Votes: 0

Lisa Brown Roberts

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Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity. Votes: 0

Stephen Vincent Benet

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I do pity unlearned gentlemen on a rainy day. Votes: 0

Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland

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I learn to pity woes so like my own. Votes: 0

John Dryden

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I pity those who have no taste for reading ... Votes: 0

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

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The cow to me is a sermon on pity. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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My subject is war, and the pity of war. Votes: 0

Wilfred Owen

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A woman's pity often opens the door to love. Votes: 0

Henry Ward Beecher

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It's a pity youth is wasted on the young. Votes: 0

George Bernard Shaw

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Gather up your pity and turn it to ambition. Votes: 0

Coolio

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He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity. Votes: 0

Anais Nin

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Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated. Votes: 0

Albert Camus

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Self-pity" is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative. Votes: 0

Renata Adler

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Itâs a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore. Votes: 0

Ava Gardner

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The teeth of self-pity had gnawed away her essential self. Votes: 0

Willa Gibbs

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PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast. Votes: 0

Ambrose Bierce

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Youth, what a pity to waste it on the young. Votes: 0

George Bernard Shaw

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Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil Votes: 0

Dante Alighieri

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I pity the shrimp that matches wits with you Jeeves Votes: 0

P. G. Wodehouse

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We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity. Votes: 0

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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It is not love that transforms the world, but pity. Votes: 0

Clara Winter

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The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity. Votes: 0

Robert Jordan

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We are so not breaking out the violins and pity partying. Votes: 0

Gena Showalter

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Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love. Votes: 0

Cornelia Funke

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The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity. Votes: 0

Anatole France

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Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt. Votes: 0

John Godfrey Saxe

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Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all"self-centeredness in its purest form. Votes: 0

Rick Yancey

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Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door. Votes: 0

William Blake

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Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too. Votes: 0

William Blake

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...love and pity for hell's occupants will not enter our hearts. Votes: 0

J. I. Packer

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I pity anybody who has to spend a day with me. Votes: 0

Marilyn Manson

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Ah, sweet pity. Where would my love life be without it? Votes: 0

Matt Groening

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I love pity parties. I wish I'd brought hats" - Christian Votes: 0

Richelle Mead

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Are you sure self-pity is a luxury you can afford, Jack? Votes: 0

Stephen King

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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes. Votes: 0

Aidan Chambers

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As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat. Votes: 0

Victor Hugo

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The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive. Votes: 0

Patty Duke

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Self-pity is a sin. It is a form of living suicide. Votes: 0

Charles J. Shields

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Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears. Votes: 0

Euripides

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Of all the well-meant emotions pity is the cruelest to share. Votes: 0

Joan Slonczewski

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She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires. Votes: 0

Edwin Arlington Robinson

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You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance," Domingo said. Votes: 0

William Goldman

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I pity you all... Most of you will die---scratch that---ALL of you. Votes: 0

Gerard Way

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The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger. Votes: 0

Seneca the Younger

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Self-pity NEVER leads to happiness. Avoid it like it's a zombie plague. Votes: 0

Ace Antonio Hall

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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror. Votes: 0

Anne Roiphe

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It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer. Votes: 0

Charlotte Bronte

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Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction Votes: 0

Virgil

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There is no room on the golf course for anger or self-pity. Votes: 0

Greg Norman

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A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love. Votes: 0

William Butler Yeats

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It's time to blow out the candles on the pity party cake. Votes: 0

Louie Giglio

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Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice. Votes: 0

Cyril Connolly

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No it isn't very pretty, what a town without pity can do. Votes: 0

Gene Pitney

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What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint. Votes: 0

Marc Chagall

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But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats - more's the pity. Votes: 0

Louisa May Alcott

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It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled. Votes: 0

Willa Cather

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Many are those who pity others while being blind to their own misfortunes. Votes: 0

Shinjo Ito

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Above all others I pity the homeless: where can they go to masturbate? Votes: 0

Robert Clark

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Compassion is not helpless pity, but an awareness and determination that demands action. Votes: 0

Dalai Lama

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Generosity is the accompaniment of high birth; pity and gratitude are its attendants. Votes: 0

Pierre Corneille

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What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it. Votes: 0

Margot Asquith

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There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy. Votes: 0

Honore de Balzac

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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity. Votes: 0

Victoria Osteen

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Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity. Votes: 0

Dean Koontz

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We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced. Votes: 0

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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It's a pity that there's such a negative connotation about paying for sex. Votes: 0

Annie Sprinkle

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There are those without decency who must be fought without hesitation, without pity. Votes: 0

Henri

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The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered. Votes: 0

Richard Steele

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Only fools pity survivors their scars and you should never kowtow to fools Votes: 0

Jeaniene Frost

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Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear. Votes: 0

Joan Halifax

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Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings. Votes: 0

George Eliot

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So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less! Votes: 0

Lord Byron

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I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love. Votes: 0

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing. Votes: 0

George Bernard Shaw

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You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot. Votes: 0

Stanley Kubrick

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War, misery, and death spared no soul, and took pity on no family. Votes: 0

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me Votes: 0

Jacqueline Carey

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It's a pity people pick and choose what they learn from the Bible. Votes: 0

Graham Greene

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He does not feel pity for himself - thus he can successfully develop. Votes: 0

Laozi

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I pity the man who praises God only when things go his way. Votes: 0

Criss Jami

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Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls. Votes: 0

Clarence Darrow

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If I gave you a pity position it wouldn't be in my office. Votes: 0

Janet Evanovich

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What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse. Votes: 0

Bill Vaughan

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You Nazis! I pity the devil when you boys start arriving in bunches. Votes: 0

Curt Siodmak

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It is a pity we can't escape from life when we are young. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree... Votes: 0

Elizabeth George Speare

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It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation. Votes: 0

Katharine Whitehorn

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It is a pity we do not die when our lives are finished. Votes: 0

Mary Borden

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A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection. Votes: 0

Arthur Helps

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It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth. Votes: 0

Vincent Van Gogh

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Itâs hard to feel hurt or frightened when youâre flooded with pity. Votes: 0

Lindy West

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It's a pity we don't whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading. Votes: 0

HalldÃ³r Laxness

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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up. Votes: 0

W. Somerset Maugham

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It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Gratitude is a dialysis of sorts... it flushes the self-pity out of our systems. Votes: 0

Max Lucado

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Try to avoid complaints. Self-pity even when legitimate never fails to undermine your strength. Votes: 0

Mariane Pearl

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Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Ãowyn! Votes: 0

J. R. R. Tolkien

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Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage... Votes: 0

Robert Nathan

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Americans began by loving youth, and now, out of adult self-pity, they worship it. Votes: 0

Jacques Barzun

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Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves? Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country. Votes: 0

Joseph Addison

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an ounce of help is worth more than a pound of pity any day ... Votes: 0

Louise Jordan Miln

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I don't really get scared. Want to know what else i don't feel?" PITY Votes: 0

Sarah Rees Brennan

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I keep remembering " I keep remembering. My heart has no pity on me. Votes: 0

Henri Barbusse

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There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true! Votes: 0

Philip Larkin

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I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity. Votes: 0

Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

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Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity. Votes: 0

Carrie Fisher

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When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble. Votes: 0

Gautama Buddha

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It's a pity to shoot the pianist when the piano is out of tune. Votes: 0

Rene Coty

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Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity. Votes: 0

Moss Hart

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A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection Votes: 0

Arthur Helps

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The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Bowen

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I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less. Votes: 0

Thomas Browne

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Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying. Votes: 0

Regina Brett

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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity. Votes: 0

Sallust

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Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life. Votes: 0

Anthony Powell

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I've seen your stormy seas and stormy women, And pity lovers rather more than seamen. Votes: 0

Lord Byron

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I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses. Votes: 0

William Makepeace Thackeray

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I feel the deepest, heartfelt pity for any adult who has never been in love. Votes: 0

Wayne Gerard Trotman

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Jesus made me, so he should save me from pity, sympathy and idiots discussing me. Votes: 0

Steven Morrissey

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In extreme danger fear feels no pity. [Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.] Votes: 0

Julius Caesar

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I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else. Votes: 0

Josh Billings

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Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me. Votes: 0

Charlaine Harris

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The memory of the aged becomes clearer and clearer with time. It has no pity. Votes: 0

Andrea Camilleri

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Self-pity is like chocolate; as you get older, you can only afford a little bit. Votes: 0

Charlaine Harris

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A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches. Votes: 0

Walter de La Mare

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Do I have my days when I've thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely. Votes: 0

Jennifer Aniston

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Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity. Votes: 0

Dorothy West

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How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage! Votes: 0

Ann Radcliffe

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If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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I feel the deepest, heartfelt pity for any adult who has never been in love." Votes: 0

Wayne Gerard Trotman

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Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest. Votes: 0

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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It's a pity that Milosevic did not live through the trial and get his deserved sentence. Votes: 0

Stjepan Mesic

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Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear. Votes: 0

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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What is of most moment of compassion is not feelings of pity but feelings of togetherness. Votes: 0

Matthew Fox

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Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity Votes: 0

Aleksandar Hemon

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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. Votes: 0

Frederick Douglass

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What pity 'tis, one that can speak so well, Should in his actions be so ill! Votes: 0

Philip Massinger

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Just listen to your instincts. Don't talk to someone or start a relationship out of pity. Votes: 0

Chris Bosh

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In general, indulgence for those we know is rarer than pity for those we know not. Votes: 0

Antoine Rivarol

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Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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I think the great unspoken theme in noir fiction is male self-pity. It pervades noir movies. Votes: 0

James Ellroy

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I feel pretty and witty and gay. And I pity any girl who isn't me today. Votes: 0

Marni Nixon

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I see filmmaking as a business and pity anyone who regards it as an art form. Votes: 0

Herschell Gordon Lewis

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What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion! Votes: 0

Sydney Smith

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When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity. Votes: 0

Jean Rostand

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In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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It is strange how you shall hate a man, and yet pity him from the depths. Votes: 0

Richard Llewellyn

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Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself. Votes: 0

Joseph Hall

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People who pity themselves think, 'Why would I try to do anything? I'll just fail.' Votes: 0

Joyce Meyer

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Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art. Votes: 0

Vladimir Nabokov

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Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief? Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness. Votes: 0

Niels Bohr

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I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. Votes: 0

George Eliot

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There's a shortage of perfects breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours. Votes: 0

Cary Elwes

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We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and respect. Votes: 0

Stella Young

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Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse? Votes: 0

Ivan Turgenev

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A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's. Votes: 0

Friedrich Schiller

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I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting. Votes: 0

Dave Matthews

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I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language. Votes: 0

Muriel Barbery

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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's. Votes: 0

Richard Miller

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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive. Votes: 0

Miguel de Cervantes

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There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours. Votes: 0

Cary Elwes

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Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more. Votes: 0

Michelangelo

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Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn't do more. Votes: 0

B. B. King

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I literally feel pity for a lot of the stupid idiots that I have to deal with. Votes: 0

Rose McGowan

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The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy. Votes: 0

Robert Jordan

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God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease. Votes: 0

Albert Camus

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Tomorrow, more's the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I. Votes: 0

A. E. Housman

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Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever. Votes: 0

James Agate

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I wished to be loved by another,' [Ãowyn] answered. 'But I desire no man's pity. Votes: 0

J. R. R. Tolkien

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I have always had a slight feeling of pity for man who has no knowledge of chess. Votes: 0

Siegbert Tarrasch

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pity runs its course. An hour comes when no hand but your own can build your future. Votes: 0

Zelda Popkin

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For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him. Votes: 0

HalldÃ³r Laxness

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...trade the life of self pity, that I was living, for a life of purpose! - Rebekah - Votes: 0

Nick Vujicic

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It will be a great pity if any feeling of jealousy or egotism gain ground amongst you. Votes: 0

Swami Vivekananda

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If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. Votes: 0

H. G. Wells

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When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself included. Votes: 0

Mary Oliver

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Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul. Votes: 0

Paul Hoffman

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Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner, there ain't no hiding place from the Father of Creation. Votes: 0

Bob Marley

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To be without pity for other mens falls, is an evident sign that we shall fall ourselves shortly. Votes: 0

Philip Neri

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Those who are too slow to be intelligent deserve our patience, those who are too quick, our pity. Votes: 0

James Richardson

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Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit. Votes: 0

Alice Meynell

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Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us! Votes: 0

Pierre Corneille

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Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man. Votes: 0

Louisa May Alcott

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There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. Votes: 0

Mary Roberts Rinehart

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A mourner is, perforce, a person with a story. The pity is, how very rarely it gets told. Votes: 0

Christian McEwen

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All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously. Votes: 0

Tom Robbins

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It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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the heart that is truly virtuous is ever inclined to pity and forgive the errors of its fellow-creatures. Votes: 0

Susanna Rowson

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You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity and the sour sound of whining. Votes: 0

Og Mandino

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I have found that the best cure for self pity is to do something to help someone else. Votes: 0

Carl Orr

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Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink. Votes: 0

Elisabeth Elliot

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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum? Votes: 0

William Cowper

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She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I lov'd her that she did pity them Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God! Votes: 0

Charles Dickens

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What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it! Votes: 0

Emile M. Cioran

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A flood of emotions rushes into me. Pain and anger. Sadness and pity. But most surprising of all, hope. Votes: 0

Jay Asher

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Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed. Votes: 0

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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There is a kind of misguided pity that deals gently with false teachers at the expense of their victims. Votes: 0

Max Anders

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Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning. Votes: 0

Neale Donald Walsch

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As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity on both counts. Votes: 0

Shirley Chisholm

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They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene. Votes: 0

Marianne Moore

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Great God, have pity on the wicked, for thou didst everything for the good, when thou madest them good! Votes: 0

Saadi

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Intellectual disgrace Stares from every human face, And the seas of pity lie Locked and frozen in each eye. Votes: 0

W. H. Auden

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Self -pity is the worst form of poison. It kills a person without the person realizing it ~ Aarush Kashyap Votes: 0

Kirtida Gautam

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A pity to survive night flights over St. Georges Channel only to crack my skull falling from a ladder. Votes: 0

Eoin Colfer

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Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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From his proceedings in Congress, he appears demented, and his actings and doings inspire my pity more than anger. Votes: 0

Andrew Jackson

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I pity people who do not care for Society. They are poorer for the oblation they do not make. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Bowen

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Life ain't all beer and skittles, and more's the pity; but what's the odds, so long as you're happy? Votes: 0

George du Maurier

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New York City gritty committee pity the fool that act shitty in the midst of the calm, the witty. Votes: 0

Pharoahe Monch

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What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head. Votes: 0

Charles Spurgeon

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Sweat has the power to end a pity party in such a way that even the hostess is happy. Votes: 0

Kristin Armstrong

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Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity. Votes: 0

Josh Billings

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When you marry a woman out of pity, then its a pity that you'll send her away very soon. Votes: 0

Michael Bassey Johnson

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But the day I can't shrug off a twinge of self-pity, is the day I'm washed up for keeps. Votes: 0

Jonathan Lethem

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I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs Votes: 0

Anita Roddick

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Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity. Votes: 0

Michael Cunningham

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No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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The house you live in will never fall down, if you pity the stranger who stands at your door. Votes: 0

Gordon Lightfoot

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I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel pity for my psychopaths, because I do. Votes: 0

Ruth Rendell

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Today is like yesterday and tomorrow will be the same as today. God, help us! Take pity of us! Votes: 0

Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia

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It is a pity that you students aren't fully aware of the luxury and abundance in which you live. Votes: 0

Hermann Hesse

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I understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don't want pity or random advice. Votes: 0

Teri Garr

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Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity. Votes: 0

Esa-Pekka Salonen

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I drive an American car. It's a Chrysler. That's not an endorsement. It's more like a cry for pity. Votes: 0

Michael Moore

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Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers. Votes: 0

John Berryman

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No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect. Votes: 0

Honore de Balzac

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Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons. Votes: 0

Robert Breault

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It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow. Votes: 0

Vladimir Nabokov

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There's a lot that you can be And ain't it a pity But its alright to smile back at me Votes: 0

Shannon Hoon

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Time to stop crying, time to get her act together and do something. Time to move beyond the pity party. Votes: 0

Lisa McMann

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It changed my whole outlook. I lost a decade to self-pity, and the next thing I knew I was turning 40. Votes: 0

Chris Hardwick

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. Votes: 0

Stephen Covey

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You shouldn't wallow in self-pity. But it's OK to put your feet in it and swish them around a little. Votes: 0

Dick Guindon

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I realized I loved him after everything went wrong so I wallowed in self-pity and prayed I could wake up. Votes: 0

Dominic Riccitello

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I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas. Votes: 0

Jean-Luc Godard

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Try not to sing too many sad songs for yourself. The universe already hates you. Self-pity isn't going to help. Votes: 0

Richard Kadrey

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Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface. Votes: 0

D. H. Lawrence

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The pity of living only once is that there is no way, ever, to be sure which sorrows are inevitable. Votes: 0

Rosellen Brown

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Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely. Votes: 0

Theodore Dreiser

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It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos Votes: 0

Manly Hall

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But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces? Votes: 0

Boris Pasternak

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pity and charity may be at root an attempt to propitiate the dark powers that have not touched us yet. Votes: 0

Marilynne Robinson

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The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he's dying don't give him pity for others. Votes: 0

Tennessee Williams

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I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions. Votes: 0

Mary Wollstonecraft

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The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read. Votes: 0

Benjamin Franklin

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To seek acceptance is to seek pity, but to give acceptance and love is to gain the hearts of many. Votes: 0

Wayne Chirisa

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There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage. Votes: 0

George Bernard Shaw

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Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that would be eliminated from schools, too? Votes: 0

Red Skelton

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It seems a pity, but I do not think that I can write more. For God's sake look after our people. Votes: 0

Robert Falcon Scott

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If every man's internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now? Votes: 0

Pietro Metastasio

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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity). [Fr., Mais un pripon d'enfant (cet age est sans pitie). Votes: 0

Jean de La Fontaine

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God. Votes: 0

William Law

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Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony Votes: 0

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift. Votes: 0

Marilyn Monroe

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Oh, pity the poor glutton Whose troubles all begin In struggling on and on to turn What's out into what's in. Votes: 0

Walter de La Mare

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Even your pity is like a blast of wind and the words you speak would strip a tree of its blossoms. Votes: 0

Tulsidas

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You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention. Votes: 0

Bernard Malamud

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It's a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel prize. Votes: 0

Stephen Hawking

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Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either Votes: 0

Garrison Keillor

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If I wanted pity, I got it because I'm illegitimate. And when I didn't want it I was mean and nasty. Votes: 0

Ethel Waters

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The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness. Votes: 0

William Makepeace Thackeray

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It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own. Votes: 0

Louis Zukofsky

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It's a pity we can't play in two or three days as I like to play straight away after a bad game Votes: 0

Jose Mourinho

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What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws! Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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They say God appeared in history and used it for his purposes, but if that was so he had no pity for men. Votes: 0

Bernard Malamud

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You ought to pity me 'cause there's always one man to love/ But in the bedroom the size of him's more than enough. Votes: 0

Lady Gaga

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When we perceive aliens as a joke to be laughed at,they feel so pity for us on the success of their plans. Votes: 0

Toba Beta

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You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity. Votes: 0

Ernest Hemingway

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If I were over full of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not take my brother's. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it. Votes: 0

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Not only must a warrior be strong with his bow, but he must have a heart full of pity for all living creatures. Votes: 0

Eiji Yoshikawa

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I do not hope somebody breaks in. However, if they did, I pity them. I pity the fool that breaks into my house. Votes: 0

Amber Heard

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As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. Votes: 0

Edith Wharton

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Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Votes: 0

Wilfred Owen

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It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys. Votes: 0

Katharine Whitehorn

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I was so full of hate that there was no room in me for such feelings as love, pity, kindness or honor or decency, Votes: 0

Carl Panzram

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We see how much a man has, and therefore we envy him; did we see how little he enjoys, we should rather pity him. Votes: 0

Jeremiah Seed

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Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world. Votes: 0

Oswald Chambers

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O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again! Votes: 0

Thomas Hardy

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I'm going to do my thing and if you react a certain way - with pity or with anger - that's up to you. Votes: 0

Jennifer Lawrence

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If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end! Votes: 0

H. P. Lovecraft

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If it takes a hundred years, it will be a pity, but I will not cease to work for it as long as I live. Votes: 0

Marie Curie

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To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal. Votes: 0

Phyllis Bottome

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I wasnât lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could ï¬nd no meaning.

Charles Bukowski

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I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.

Ferdinand Mount

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The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds.

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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Was it for crimes that I had done He groaned upon the tree? Amazing pity! Grace unknown! And love beyond degree!

Isaac Watts

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It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men.

Marilynne Robinson

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Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.

Richard Wagner

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The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.

Dean Koontz

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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

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He Who is wrapped in purple robes, With planets in His care, Had pity on the least of things Asleep upon a chair.

William Butler Yeats

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It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are finished. Mrs. Miracle

Debbie Macomber

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What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Anyone who attempts to construe a personal view of God which conflicts with church dogma must be burned without pity.

Pope Innocent III

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It is a pity that many Christians have the TV schedule better memorized than a single chapter for God's precious Word.

Charles R. Swindoll

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What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.

Fanny Fern

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It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have power.

Kate Horsley

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Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred.

Anatole France

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I pity anyone who can't laugh. There must be something wrong with their religion or their lives. The devil can't laugh.

Billy Sunday

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Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity?

I. L. Peretz

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Pity is a really odd thing with abused women. You don't want anyone to think that you feel bad - even though you might.

Kristen Stewart

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It is a pity that Elizabeth and I cannot marry each other. Our children would have gained mastery over the whole world.

Pope Sixtus V

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The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.

John Steinbeck

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There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.

Joseph Addison

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It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.

William Saroyan

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Being a retired major looks like an ideal thing to me. What a pity you couldn't eternally have been just a retired major.

Fernando Pessoa

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We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.

Henry David Thoreau

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Self Pity is the most miserable party to go to, because, in case you haven't noticed, you're the only one who is there...

Joyce Meyer

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For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.

Rachel Carson

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The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.

William Shakespeare

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Watch waterfalls of pity roar, you feel to moan but unlike before, you discover that you'd just be one more person crying.

Bob Dylan

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Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.

Julia Cameron

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Pity it is we drowse too soon Pity it is we fall asleep Ere our song encompass the height Ere our hand inherit the deep

Khalil Gibran

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There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

Woodrow Wilson

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Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too.

Graham Greene

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Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison.

John Frederick Boyes

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... real pity should stretch out to people whom we do not like -- to those whom we have injured or who despitefully use us.

Margaret Campbell Barnes

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If you realize that those who do mean things are psychologically ill, your feelings of anger will turn to feelings of pity.

Peace Pilgrim

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It's hard to play a continuing character like Loomis for nearly 11 years and simply wash your hands of him. It seems a pity.

Donald Pleasence

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Self-pity is the most negative quality of the human spirit. Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter.

Jon M. Huntsman Sr.

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Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you didn't.

Jim Rohn

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I once read about a guy who lost his arms in a fire. The nurse took pity on him and gave him a hand job. I don't even get that.

Augusten Burroughs

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And it's a pity too that I've no right to open your letters. I hope you don't get many, or my conscience will give me no peace.

Diana Wynne Jones

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You lose such a lot of time just sleeping ... when you might just be living! ... It seems such a pity we can't live nights too.

Eleanor Porter

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Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.

Gordon B. Hinckley

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Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies.

Patrick Rothfuss

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If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color.

Mary Cassatt

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Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity.

Walter Raleigh

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I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.

Booker T. Washington

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There are two sorts of pity: one is a balm and the other a poison; the first is realized by our friends, the last by our enemies.

Charles Sumner

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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

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If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

Lord Chesterfield

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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God's care and pity for every separate need.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate. I hate murderously.

Anais Nin

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Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn't the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn't deserve my own pity.

Chris Cleave

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When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough.

H. L. Mencken

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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.

William Cowper

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God is looking for those with whom He can do the impossible - what a pity that we plan only the things that we can do by ourselves.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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Yet, ironically, it is her very wretchedness that makes me pity her so. I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't know what to do!

Christopher Pike

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Love is ruthless; it doesn't feel sorry for anyone, but it does have compassion. Fear is full of pity; it feels sorry for everyone.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

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One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.

V. S. Pritchett

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In the field of controversy I always pity the moderate party, who stand on the open middle ground exposed to the fire of both sides.

Edward Gibbon

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Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others. It is a delicate foresight of the troubles into which we may fall.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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. . . a pity I never had children. But you're wrong. . . . I have . . . thousands of them . . . thousands of them . . . and all boys!

Robert Donat

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It is in the book of man, not the book of god, that we must look for examples of heroism, love, pity, justice, truth, honor, humanity.

M. M. Mangasarian

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The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at a keyhole. It is a pity for such that the practice is dishonorable.

Sophie Swetchine

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Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your laughter can you win.

Joni Mitchell

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If you have been wise and successful I congratulate you. Unless you are unable to forget how successful you have been, then I pity you.

Napoleon Hill

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I pity the Hindu who does not see the beauty in Jesus Christ's character. I pity the Christian who does not reverence the Hindu Christ.

Swami Vivekananda

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Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft contemplative, and kind.

Walter Scott

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Give plenty of what is given to you, And listen to pity's call. Don't think the little you give is great, And the much you get is small.

Phoebe Cary

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There are a few things that'll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they've been used several times, they no longer work.

Bertolt Brecht

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Good steel bends, but never breaks. Good steel stays always sharp and ready. Good steel feels no pain, no pity, and above all, no remorse

Joe Abercrombie

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Shake off the self-pity, shake off the defeat and get ready for God to do something new. He is going to pay you back for every injustice.

Joel Osteen

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It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.

Baruch Spinoza

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...and I confess that, like a child, I cry. Ah, self-pity; I think we are at our most honest and sincere when we feel sorry for ourselves.

Iain Banks

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Baby, in a world without pity Do you think what I'm askin's too much I just want to feel you in my arms Share a little of that Human Touch.

Bruce Springsteen

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Self-pity ? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage.

E. M. Forster

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Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.

George Eliot

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All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did.

Josephine Hart

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Unfortunately, in the environment, I don't see as much willingness to invest heavily in R&D as I do in consumer technology. And that's a pity.

Ramez Naam

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Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be thrown away upon him.

Anthony Trollope

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I'm either a mutant or a cripple, and I refuse to be a cripple. People pity cripples, but they're afraid of mutants [...] Fear implies respect.

Dean Koontz

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God pity the tortured hearts that will pant through this night! And the agony of the poor wife who has heard that her husband is really killed!

Margaret Junkin Preston

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I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

Pietro Metastasio

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While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of love.

William Butler Yeats

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When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and pity, and wonder.

Henry Ward Beecher

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What are you doing?" she asked, trying to raise herself. "First, I thought I'd show you what a pity it would be if they cut off my wicked tongue.

Melina Marchetta

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I pity the people who don't like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and don't get to discover any others.

Richard Denney

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Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity.

Thomas B. Macaulay

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Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.

Cheryl Strayed

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God made poor woman with no heart, But gave her skill, and tact, and art, And so she lives, and plays her part. We must not blame, but pity her...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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You will surely smile with me when I say, 'Thank God one can still recognise self-pity as such and not give it any greater dignity than just that.

James Fox

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When I see a cow, it is not an animal to eat, it is a poem of pity for me and I worship it and I shall defend its worship against the whole world.

Mahatma Gandhi

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The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady; one can pity someone who is suffering ; someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.

Andre Gide

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The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.

Mahatma Gandhi

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The state of your heart dictates whether you harbor a grudge or give grace, seek self-pity or seek Christ, drink human misery or taste God's mercy.

Max Lucado

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Have charity towards all beings. Pity those who are in distress. Love all creatures. Do not be jealous of anyone. Look not to the faults of others.

Swami Vivekananda

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Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter.

Honore de Balzac

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In the eyes of mercy, no one should have hateful thoughts. Feel pity for the man who is even more at fault. The area and size of mercy is limitless.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

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But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.

Beilby Porteus

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It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.

Bernard M. Oliver

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So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most importantâ self-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the eyes.

Brandon Sanderson

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Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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I write my miserable songs. I write songs about disgust and self-pity. We're all going to have bummer moments. That's not the stuff I choose to share.

Jason Mraz

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God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does.

J. G. Holland

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I don't ask for your pity, but just your understanding - no, not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.

Tennessee Williams

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When you get down to the nitty gritty, isn't it a pity that in this big city not one little bitty man will admit that he could have been a little wrong.

Elvis Presley

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Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous.

Henry Fielding

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When you speak about these miracles, I laugh within Myself out of pity, that you allow yourself so easily to loose the precious awareness of My Reality.

Sathya Sai Baba

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Do you know...what I think is a great pity? It is this: that we have all become such skeptics that we hardly believe what our pious grandmothers told us.

Isak Dinesen

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Trump's "Make America Great Again" program trumpets a national identity built on scapegoating, self-pity and grandiosity, and the promise of a strongman.

Susan Faludi

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Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer.

James Joyce

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self-sacrifice is one of a woman's seven deadly sins (along with self-abuse, self-loathing, self-deception, self-pity, self-serving, and self-immolation).

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the mask of bliss, And so be envy'd, and be wretched too!

Edward Young

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O Beloved of Hearts, I beseech only You. Have pity this day on those who turn to You. My Hope, my Rest, my Delight, this heart can love none other but You.

Rabia Basri

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Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing and loving life.

Rachel Naomi Remen

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Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

Rebecca Harding Davis

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A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity.

H. L. Mencken

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...long before the child learns to talk properly-and long before it learns to think philosophically-the world will have become a habit. A pity, if you ask me.

Jostein Gaarder

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You can't be disturbed by anything. There's no emotion involved. You can't feel sorrow, you can't feel pity, there's nothing you feel. The job has to be done.

Mike Tyson

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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

Alexander Pope

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Every generation gets a chance to change the world Pity the nation that won't listen to your boys and girls Cos the sweetest melody is the one we haven't heard

Alvin Toffler

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None who has known the charity of wine, Its pity, the cool logic of its spell Will waver in his loyalty, or dwell In any heaven where the grape lacks a shrine.

Donald Evans

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Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might be a handle to take hold of.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

Toni Morrison

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When late I attempted your pity to move, Why seemed you so deaf to my prayers? Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love But-why did you kick me downstairs?

John Philip Kemble

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Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drinks all around.

H. Beam Piper

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Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect; that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the experience that worketh hope.

Margaret Deland

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We pity or condemn the communist peoples of the world for being bound in the chains of doctrine. So are we. Our doctrine runs as follows: Our Way is the Only Way.

Marya Mannes

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In an ideal world, we would have been orphans. We felt like orphans and we felt deserving of the pity that orphans get, but embarrassingly enough, we had parents.

Miranda July

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Ah! some love Paris, / And some Purdue. / But love is an archer with a low I.Q. / A bold, bad bowman, and innocent of pity. / So I'm in love with / New York City.

Phyllis McGinley

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Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you--these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine Dark Ones.

Sergei Lukyanenko

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I pause a second. He doesn't look at me the way Will, Christina, and Al sometimes do - like I am too small and too weak to be of any use, and they pity me for it.

Veronica Roth

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Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.

Elbert Hubbard

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We did not adopt socialism out of books, abstractions, humanism, or pity, but rather out of need for the Arab working class is the mover of history in this period.

Michel Aflaq

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O Day after day we can't help growing older. Year after year spring can't help seeming younger. Come let's enjoy our winecup today, Nor pity the flowers fallen.

Wang Wei

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Some men make gain a fountain, whence proceeds A stream of liberal and heroic deeds; The swell of pity, not to be confined Within the scanty limits of the mind.

William Cowper

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At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.

Albert Einstein

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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people's wrongs his own.

John Dryden

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I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa.

Kurt Vonnegut

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I've covered a lot of the British countryside and the UK from top to bottom and side to side. It's such a pity more people don't appreciate what's on their doorstep.

Alan Titchmarsh

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Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.

Emile Zola

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From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.

G. I. Gurdjieff

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Self-pity is the campsite of self-defeat; it is a dark refuge for those parts of us that would rather wallow in what cannot be than dare to explore what is possible.

Guy Finley

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This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.

Dylan Thomas

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Speech is a powerful master and achieves the most divine feats with the smallest and least evident body. It can stop fear, relieve pain, create joy, and increase pity

Gorgias

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Pity! Religion has so seldom found A skilful guide into poetic ground! The flowers would spring where'er she deign'd to stray And every muse attend her in her way.

William Cowper

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She dreams of him that has forgot her love; You dote on her that cares not for your love. 'Tis pity love should be so contrary; And thinking of it makes me cry 'alas!

William Shakespeare

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There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one day he suffocated through his excessive pity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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My own heart let me more have pity on; let Me live to my sad self hereafter kind, Charitable; not live this tormented mind With this tormented mind tormenting yet.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Just about the worst thing a leader can nurture in his heart is self-pity. And just about the worst thing a leader can do in front of his people is murmur and complain.

Kevin DeYoung

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I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren--and so it is; and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.

Laurence Sterne

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Pity! The southerly trees have shed their leaves. Nobody comes to appreciate the mountain's beauty. Tomorrow I too will float away. My reflection gone from cool streams.

Cheng Man-ch'ing

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Temptation gains power where we see it prevail in others we know and we express neither shock or hatred of them and their ways nor pity and prayer for their deliverance.

John Owen

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But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.

Rudyard Kipling

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Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.

Booker T. Washington

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If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

Lord Chesterfield

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When I look back at experience [with my father], all I can do is feel pity. You know, how torn he was about how to act, what to say. And it seems an important story to me.

Paul Auster

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Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure; Pity then will cut away Those cruel wings, and thou wilt stay.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.

Aristotle

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Pity goes hand in hand with contempt. Don't ever forget that, Liberty. You can't take handouts or help from anyone, because that gives people the right to look down on you.

Lisa Kleypas

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I think the French have come to grips with their past, and that was true up until about - until the '70s. And then there were things like the film "The Sorrow And The Pity."

Robert O. Paxton

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Love is the only thing that pays for birth, Or makes death welcome. Oh, dear God above This beautiful but sad, perplexing earth, Pity the hearts that know--or know not--Love!

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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O, if there be any kind of life most sad, and deepest in the scale of pity, it is the dry, cold impotence of one, who has honestly set to the work of his own self-redemption.

Horace Bushnell

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There is a passion of reverence, almost of pity, mingling with the love of an honest man for a pure girl, which makes it the most exquisite, perhaps, of all human sentiments.

Lucas Malet

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What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness!

Samuel Richardson

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I pity those born of the lighter side. They have no understanding of how seductive cruelty is. The music made out of screams and pleas for mercy. Mmmm. Nothing better. (Noir)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude.

Charles Dickens

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It is important not to allow ourselves to be put off by the magnitude of others' suffering. The misery of millions is not a cause for pity. Rather it is a cause for compassion.

Dalai Lama

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I'm not particularly keen on pity. Pity takes something away from grief. People think they're sharing it, but really they're just taking some. I prefer to keep my grief intact.

Elizabeth Jane Howard

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Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows.

Sophocles

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It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.

Laurence Sterne

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Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.

Robert A. Heinlein

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Tell me I'm a sinner I got news for you I spoke to God this morning and he don't like you! Don't you try and teach me no original sin; I don't need your pity for the shape I'm in

Ozzy Osbourne

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It's true he was a sinner. But don't pass so final a judgement. Have pity in your heart and don't forget that he may yet be an Augustine, while you remain just another mediocrity.

Josemaria Escriva

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I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

John Templeton

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We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving you have no time for this. You just push these emotions out.

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual lives like a slowly spreading cancer.

Jerry Bridges

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Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because they are afraid that someone has already done so better than they couldâ¦

Paulo Coelho

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Why, this Satan's drink is so delicious it would be a pity to let the infidels have exclusive use of it. We shall fool Satan by baptizing it and making it a truly Christian beverage.

Pope Clement VIII

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I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.

Soren Kierkegaard

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When I die, people will say it is the best thing for me. It is because they know it is the worst. They want to avoid the feeling of pity. As though they were the people most concerned!

Ivy Compton-Burnett

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Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone.

John Calvin

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The Lord looks on his servants with pity and not with blame. In God's sight we do not fall; in our sight, we do not stand. Both of these are true, but the deeper insight belongs to God.

Julian of Norwich

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God shall not pity them but laugh at their calamity. The righteous company in heaven shall rejoice in the execution of God's judgment, and shall sing while the smoke riseth up for ever.

Thomas Boston

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I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means of transport, although that end is what we have all ostensibly been striving to attain.

Amy Johnson

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The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment!

Friedrich Nietzsche

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It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.

John Fowles

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It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.

Louisa May Alcott

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Laughter is the great antidote for self-pity, maybe a specific for the malady, yet probably it does tend to dry one's feelings out a little, as if by exposing them to a vigorous wind ...

Mary McCarthy

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If you see a man who has sinned and you do not pity him, the grace of God will leave you. Whoever curses bad people, and does not pray for them, will never come to know the grace of God.

Silouan the Athonite

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This is pity,â he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue.

Ayn Rand

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The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.

Mark Twain

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A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmth from the fire and with the pity and beauty and power of her death. The thunder rolled.

Eudora Welty

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remember the golden apple-trees; O, do not pity them, as you watch them drop one by one, for they fall exhausted, numb, blind but in certain ecstasy, for theirs is the hunger for Paradise.

Hilda Doolittle

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It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.

Rebecca West

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We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there is an accompanying surge in those hostile sensations.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.

Henry Ward Beecher

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1. Find a subject you care about. 2. Do not ramble, though. 3. Keep it simple. 4. Have the guts to cut. 5. Sound like yourself. 6. Say what you mean to say. 7. Pity the readers.

Kurt Vonnegut

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Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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The feeling it gave me was an odd combination of weightless self-pity and excitement. I understood my life was meaningless, and this knowledge freed me up to accomplish absolutely anything.

Matt de la Pena

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Flaubert was right when he said that our use of language is like a cracked kettle on which we bang out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we need to move the very stars to pity.

Christopher Hitchens

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If you looked down to the bottom of my soul, you would understand fully the source of my longing and " pity me. Even the open, transparent lake has its unknown depths, which no divers know.

Hans Christian Andersen

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Forsooth, I no longer toil in vain, To prove that demon pox warps the brain. So though 'ti pity, it's not in vain That the pox-ridden worm was slain: For to believe in me, you all must deign.

Cassandra Clare

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Never try to understand the students. They hate it. They would much rather be tragically misunderstood, wallow in self-pity, stew in their own "" "That's enough, Phineas," said Dumbledore.

J. K. Rowling

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If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.

Loren Eiseley

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My capacity for invention is flash hot stark, I thought. Sucker sunshade. Disembodied radar-reconnaissance. Not to mention Bitter Chocolate Death and Killer Zebras. Pity about the rest of me.

Robin McKinley

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A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The French constitute the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation in Europe and the best qualified in turn to become an object of admiration, hatred, pity or terror but never indifference.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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I'm not going to sit here and say, 'Pity me; I came from modeling.' It's opened a lot of doors. People will take meetings because they've heard the name before. That's an advantage that I have.

Brooklyn Decker

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What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest.

Claude Monet

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Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn.

Friedrich Schiller

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It is a pity that the words "spiritual life" were ever invented, for they have caused so much confusion. For, in truth, there is only life-everyday life-which is simply what is at every moment.

Robert Powell

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Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride, and have no prospect of great conquests: the easy prey - and that is what every sufferer is - is for them an enchanting thing.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

Jane Austen

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An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still hold their heads among human beings?

Samuel Johnson

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Sometimes, you know, I cry. And sometimes I scream. And I get really angry. And I get really upset, you know, into wallowing in self-pity sometimes. And I think that it's all part of the healing.

Christina Applegate

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I am focused on what needs to be done for the people of Israel. Period. I do not pity myself and I do not pat myself on the shoulder. I get up in the morning full of energy to fulfill my mission.

Ehud Olmert

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All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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I will look, your Honor, and endeavor to find a precedent, if you require it; though it would seem to be a pity that the Court should lose the honor of being the first to establish so just a rule.

Rufus Choate

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For a song I was bought Now I lie when I talk With a careful eye on the cue card. Onto a stage I was pushed, With my sorrow well rehearsed. So give me all your pity and your money, now (all of it).

Conor Oberst

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You can't buy time, Nick. Ever. It's the only thing in life you can't get most of, and it's the one thing that will mercilessly tear you up when it's gone. It takes no pity on no soul and no heart.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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When he sat alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing had changed. His leg still hurt, it was still dark, he was still alone and the self-pity had accomplished nothing.

Gary Paulsen

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However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent.

Pope Pius XI

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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne'er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.

Ben Jonson

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I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife inside because there was no alternative except to hide as long as possible--- not in self-pity but with dismay at my limited chance: trying to connect.

Charles Bukowski

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In many cases, people who win a Nobel prize, their work slows down after that because of the distractions. Yes, fame is rewarding, but it's a pity if it keeps you from doing the work you are good at.

Charles Hard Townes

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Nor did I need anyone's pity, but I would accept it with grace, because I have been well trained. Rudeness was a sign of weakness. Grace stemmed from power, the powere to accept anything and move on.

Robin Wasserman

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The original sin of Republicans is greed. Everyone understands greed. Everybody wants to get theirs. The original sin of Democrats is pity. Greed is more attractive, and a better motivator, than pity.

John Scalzi

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Although I've played a wide variety of roles, I've never had the chance to act in a story written specially for me. It's a pity as they are the only stories that really let you reveal your personality.

Grace Kelly

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It's a pity we're still officially living in an age called the Holocene. The Anthropocene - human dominance of biological, chemical and geological processes on Earth - is already an undeniable reality.

Paul J. Crutzen

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The army slew a thousand and showed little pity The king ordered fealty from the conquered city The prince charmed its people with words wise and witty And the queen sat on a couch, looking very pretty

Shannon Hale

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Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.

C. S. Lewis

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Brilliant. A very funny and concise explanation of why we men are as we are. If you are male, you should read it and then make your partner read it, so they will no longer hate you but pity you instead.

Harry Enfield

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Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer? Only a great wave of mankind's pity can surmount an immense wave of human misery?

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

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Look around in the world, and you may see some in every place who are objects of pity, bereaved by sad accidents of all the comforts of life, while in the meantime Providence has tenderly preserved you.

John Flavel

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Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Louisa May Alcott

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I'm not trying to look for pity or sympathy. I was just surprised that so many people in the world of entertainment seemed to be okay with misogyny and homophobia as long as they were profiting from it.

Moby

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God damn! Drug dealers dealin' to the kiddies, Livin' in the city ain't no pity on the itty-bitty. We try to cry, but still they all die, I try to speak to the youth, and the truth is: they all high.

Tupac Shakur

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The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

Mark Twain

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I'm not going to wallow in self-pity and not live my life. There are always going to be some falls in life for everybody, no matter what career you have. You have to roll with the punches and keep going.

Naomi Campbell

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People seem to think themselves in some ways superior to heaven itself, when they complain of the sorrow and want round about them. And yet it is not the devil for certain who puts pity into their hearts.

Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie

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When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all inner strength seem to melt away in floods of self-pity and tenderness and rising tears?

Georges Bernanos

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I have given orders to my Death units to exterminate without mercy or pity men, women and children belonging to the Polish speaking race...After all, who remembers today the extermination of the Armenians?

Adolf Hitler

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Pity for these inhabitants, I have none. In the first place, they are rebels, and I am almost prepared to agree with Sherman that a rebel has no rights, not even the right to live except by our permission.

Charles Fessenden Morse

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I will teach you to love death. I will empty you of grief and guilt and self-pity and fill you up with hate and cunning and the spirit of vengeance. I will make my final stand here, Benjamin Thomas Parish.

Rick Yancey

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The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance, but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.

Honore de Balzac

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I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowfulâjust as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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[Her] love and tenderness ... gave me the faith in love that enabled me to face my dead at last and write this play-write it with deep pity and understanding and forgiveness for all the four haunted Tyrones.

Eugene O'Neill

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I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that's all.

Mitch Albom

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I remember thinking, without pride of self-pity, that I was not rich or poor, that I wasn't good or bad. But that was difficult: to be neither good nor bad. It seemed to me, in the end, the same as being bad.

Alejandro Zambra

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I have always, privately and humbly, thought it a pity that so good a word [as culture] should go out of the best vocabularies; for when you lose an abstract term, you are apt to lose the thing it stands for.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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All you who are in love Aye and can not remove it I pity the pain that you endure. For experience lets me know That your hearts are filled with woe It's a woe that no mortal can cure. -"the Curragh of Kildare

Maggie Stiefvater

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I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make man happy.

Siegbert Tarrasch

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If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity is but cold comfort when one is up to the chin in water, and within a hair's breadth of starving or drowning.

Aesop

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In regard to the colored people, there is always more that is benevolent, I perceive, than just, manifested towards us. What I ask for the negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.

Frederick Douglass

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Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If I must pity, at least I do not want it known; and if I do pity, it is preferably from a distance.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Ah, children, pity level-crossing keepers, pity lock-keepers - pity lighthouse-keepers - pity all the keepers of this world (pity even school teachers), caught between their conscience and the bleak horizon...

Graham Swift

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Listen and understand. That Terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.

Michael Biehn

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Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.

Baron de Montesquieu

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Whoever will not love his enemies cannot know the Lord and the sweetness of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit teaches us to love our enemies in such way that we pity their souls as if they were our own children.

Silouan the Athonite

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An angel, legend has it, took pity on a little shepherd girl who had nothing to give to the Infant Jesus in his manger. The angel handed her a weed, but first transformed it into this beautiful flower of winter.

Allen Lacy

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The first rose on my rose-tree Budded, bloomed, and shattered, During sad days when to me Nothing mattered. Grief or grief has drained me clean; Still it seems a pity No one saw,âit must have been Very pretty.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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I do not love thee less for what is done, And cannot be undone. Thy very weakness Hath brought thee nearer to me, and henceforth My love will have a sense of pity in it, Making it less a worship than before.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow