Self-pity NEVER leads to happiness. Avoid it like it’s a zombie plague.

The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.

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

Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

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

And pity–people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you–that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful...

Pitiful and pitied by no one, why have I come to the ignominy of this detestable old age, who was ruler of two kingdoms, mother of two kings? My guts are torn from me, my...

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

Congratulations.You’ve just been demoted from the “pity” sector to the “apathy” sector.To check the validity of this offer you can ask if anyone cares.To cancel your subscription, go get a life.Thank you.

There you go, being human again,’ said the Doctor. He put an arm around Rose, and hugged her to him. ‘It’s not fair, is it, when we’re forced into pitying someone we hate. Feels lik...

Satirize wickedness if you must–but pity weakness.

No weekends for the gods now. Warsflicker, earth licks its open sores,fresh breakage, fresh promotions, chanceassassinations, no advance.Only man thinning out his own kindsounds through the Sabbath noon, the blindswipe of the pruner and his...

Suppose it should turn out that no such person as Christ ever lived. What harm would that do justice or mercy? Wouldn’t the tear of pity be as pure as now, and wouldn’t justice, holding...

This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only because they are alive.

She expected no judgement and wanted no pity.

Pity. What a useless emotion when you don’t act on it. Pity is supposed to trigger compassion.

Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world’s hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman’s tenderness.

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

The greatest miracle was that in the end I could actually feel pity for those men because they were so deluded: they thought they had power and really they had nothing. I will never forget...

Umana cosa è l’aver compassione agli afflitti; e come che a ciascuna persona stea bene, a coloro è massimamente richiesto li quali già hanno di conforto avuto mestiere, e hannol trovato in alcuni: fra’ quali,...

Sometimes I almost pity them. I think I have a freedom they cannot understand. No insult, no blame can touch me. Because I have set myself beyond the pale. I am nothing, I am hardly...

All my life I’d been a believing Christian. … But that instant in the ER–the instant Annette [his wife] died–I seemed to feel my religious faith die, too.As I thought more about it in the...

The greatest thrill is not to kill but to let live.

It was a pity this happened right now. I was ready to compete.

Rhysand stared at me for long enough that I faced him.”Be glad of your human heart, Feyre. Pity those who don’t feel anything at all.

There were friends all over London who would welcome his eagerly to their homes, who would throw open their guest rooms and their fridges, eager to condole and to help. The price of all of...

When Death, or adverse Fortune’s ruthless gale,Tears our best hopes away, the wounded HeartExhausted, leans on all that can impartThe charm of Sympathy; her mutual wailHow soothing! never can her warm tears failTo balm our...

self-pitying” for long years now and things don’t seem to improve. Just try a few days of good self-esteeming” and you’ll see things taking a better shape!

Whenever she saw in others an advantage, however trivial, which she herself lacked, she would persuade herself that it was no advantage at all, but a drawback, and would pity so as not to have...

He hasn’t had a lucky season, I must say so it’s a pity. He is almost for sure out of the rest of tournament, but the good thing is he will not miss preseason and...

I had great pity on Ansje, because she always acted very happy, but I believed that it was really a front. I could see through it. Inside she was crying because she was really very...

Don’t pity me now, don’t pity me never; I’m going to do nothing for ever and ever.

Constance: Tell me, what happened to William’s little maid? I never saw her again after that dinner.Mary Maceachran: Elsie? — She’s gone.Constance: Oh, it’s a pity, really. I thought it was a good idea to...

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

For those constantly full of joy, they sometimes feel a little guilty for always feeling so good. That guilt is compassion: it flies in with an attempt to share one’s joy with others who do...

Such is the pure movement of nature prior to all reflection. Such is the force of natural pity, which the most depraved mores still have difficulty destroying, since everyday one sees in our theaters someone...

Pity those who don’t feel anything at all.

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

This is pity,” 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.

It was a pity he couldna be hatched o’er again, an’ hatched different.

I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.

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

I wasn’t offering her pity,” Mrs. Caswell said impatiently. “Tragedies don’t interest me, tragedies and heartbreaks are all alike, what matters is how a person meets them, how they survive them. Given the inevitability of...

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

Unfortunately this has come after a lot of public pressure. It’s a pity it’s taken too long to happen.

Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.

Look for the person everyone hates, and love them.

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

In the strangely simple economy of the world people only get what they give, and to those who have not enough imagination to penetrate the mere outward of things and feel pity, what pity can...

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