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Pity is a benign form of abuse. By Michael J. Fox Pity Abuse Benign Form

How much to be pitied is he, who has no pity! By Publilius Syrus Pity Pitied

I pity the poverty of your wealth. By Robert A. Heinlein Wealth Pity Poverty

Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save. By Edwin Arlington Robinson Pity Knife Save Pierce Employs

I pity the man who can't cry. By Janny Wurts Cry Pity Man

Pity is woman's sweetest charm. By Honore De Balzac Pity Charm Woman Sweetest

Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing. By Eugene H. Peterson Pity Condescending Shared Lifechanging Nearsighted

God give me anything but a good man's pity. By Kresley Cole God Pity Give Good Man

Give me pity.Flash.Give me empathy.Flash. By Chuck Palahniuk Give Empathyflash

Pity sidesteps complexity in favor of narratives that we're comfortable with, reducing the nuances of a person's experience to a sound bite. By Phil Klay Pity Reducing Bite Sidesteps Complexity

I never wanted anyone's pity. By Jake Weber Pity Wanted

Pity is nary a friend you want to invite, nor an acquaintance you would accompany. By Euphrates Arnaut Moss Pity Invite Accompany Nary Friend

Even your pity is like a blast of wind and the words you speak would strip a tree of its blossoms. By Tulsidas Blossoms Pity Blast Wind Words

Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror. By Anne Roiphe Selfpity Mirror Distort Funhouse

Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love. By Laurell K. Hamilton Pity Killed Emotion Hate Love

That's the funny thing about pity, Saint. It's condescending by default. By Wildbow Saint Pity Funny Thing Default

pity very often - not always - comes with an unspoken and sometimes unrecognized element of contempt. By Dean Koontz Pity Contempt Unspoken Unrecognized Element

We pity people too often for the wrong reasons. By Katherine Anne Porter Reasons Pity People Wrong

Pity makes a thin drink, indeed. By Caroline Pafford Miller Pity Drink Makes Thin

I spit upon your pity. By George R R Martin Pity Spit

Pity addresses the perceived suffering, not the whole individual. By Phil Klay Pity Suffering Individual Addresses Perceived

Pity and friendship seek different habitations. By Helen Hunt Pity Habitations Friendship Seek

Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe. By Samuel Taylor Coleridge Pity Woe Taught Fellowship

I pity for those that suffer and humiliate themselves for the approval of others because they are truly stupid. By Daniel Marques Stupid Pity Suffer Humiliate Approval

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests. By Friedrich Nietzsche Pity Conquests Agreeable Feeling Pride

But pity was not action. It was not love. Pity, like passion, was no more than a kind of instinct. By Shusaku Endo Action Pity Love Passion Instinct

There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the heart's impatience to be rid as quickly as possible of the painful emotion aroused by the sight of another's unhappiness, that pity which is not compassion, but only an instinctive desire to fortify one's own soul agains the sufferings of another; and the other, the only one at counts, the unsentimental but creative kind, which knows what it is about and is determined to hold out, in patience and forbearance, to the very limit of its strength and even beyond. By Stefan Zweig Pity Kind Kinds Unhappiness Compassion

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. By Honore De Balzac Pity Response Man Greatest Difficulty

Pity is not forgiveness, nor is gratitude absolution. By Pierce Brown Pity Forgiveness Absolution Gratitude

Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others. By Mason Cooley Selfpity Dries Sympathy

Self-pity is ... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink. By Elisabeth Elliot Selfpity Sink Sinkhole Rescuing Hand

Sometimes, I thought pity was the most heartless thing in the world. All it did was make people feel superior to you, happy, safe, and smug in the knowledge that someone had it worse than they did. By Jennifer Estep World Thought Pity Heartless Thing

Pity is an emotion that should have never been created. Pity was strong and could break the backs of people fighting for survival and respect. I couldn't stand pity. By Elizabeth Isaacs Created Pity Emotion Respect Strong

I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else. By Josh Billings Cure Sorrow Pity

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. By Guy Finley Selfpity Selfdefeat Campsite Dark Refuge

Pity makes suffering contagious. By Friedrich Nietzsche Pity Contagious Makes Suffering

Pity is akin to love. By Thomas Southerne Pity Love Akin

PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast. By Ambrose Bierce Pity Exemption Inspired Contrast Failing

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. By C.s. Lewis Meant Spur Drives Pity Joy

Pity runs its course. An hour comes when no hand but your own can build your future. By Zelda Popkin Pity Runs Future Hour Hand

Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes. By Aidan Chambers Corrodes Pity Disease Kill

Give me pity.Flash.Give me another chance.Flash. By Chuck Palahniuk Give Chanceflash

Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient. By Boleslaw Prus Pity Recipient Emotion Equally Unpleasant

I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post. By Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne Post Sorrow Greater Occasioned Delay

If I must have pity, then I do not want to be called such; and if I do have pity, then rather from a distance. By Friedrich Nietzsche Pity Distance Called

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. By Charles Sumner Pity Poison Friends Enemies Sorts

Self-pity is the worst disability a person can have, Callie. It's crippling. By Shelley D Terrell Callie Selfpity Worst Disability Person

Pity . . . is more properly bestowed in cases of involuntary suffering than of crime and offences committed voluntarily and with malice aforethought. By Antiphon Pity Aforethought Properly Bestowed Cases

Self-pity is an ignoble emotion, but we all feel it, and the orthodox critical line that it represents some kind of artistic flaw is dubious, a form of emotional correctness. By Nick Hornby Selfpity Emotion Dubious Correctness Ignoble

Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong. By Richard Wright Pity Characters Understood Pitying Wrong

Shame... cannot survive empathy. By Brene Brown Shame Empathy Survive

Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters which may befall ourselves. We assist others,, in order that they may assist us on like occasions; so that the services we offer to the unfortunate are in reality so many anticipated kindnesses to ourselves. By Francois De La Rochefoucauld Pity Man Sense Misfortunes Sort

All pity choked with custom of fell deeds. By William Shakespeare Deeds Pity Choked Custom Fell

Self-pity is not a pleasant emotion and is a fruitless one as well, for its point of no return is an onset of black despair in very short order. By Moss Hart Selfpity Order Pleasant Emotion Fruitless

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. By Friedrich Nietzsche Pity Verily Shame Merciful Feel

Pity, I knew, was just disrespect wrapped in kindness. I had to address it early, or it would grow unwieldy in time. By Veronica Roth Pity Knew Kindness Disrespect Wrapped

Pity melts the mind to love. By John Dryden Pity Love Melts Mind

I pity you, FOOL! By Mr. T Fool Pity

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. By Friedrich Nietzsche Pity Pride Conquests Prey Thing

Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world. By Oswald Chambers God Devil World Pity Wallow

Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity; but we have not pity unless we wish to relieve him. By Samuel Johnson Pity Man Natural Children Cruel

Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman. By Vicki Baum Pity Woman Deadliest Feeling Offered

One grows out of pity when it's useless. By Albert Camus Useless Grows Pity

You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention. By Bernard Malamud God Man Pity Surprise Invention

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. By Elizabeth Jane Howard Pity Keen Grief People Intact

- pity is a confoundedly two-edged business. Anyone who doesn't know how to deal with it should keep his hands, and, above all, his heart, off it. It is only at first that pity, like morphia, is a solace to the invalid, a remedy, a drug, but unless you know the correct dosage and when to stop, it becomes a virulent poison. The first few injections do good, they soothe, they deaden the pain. But the devil of it is that the organism, the body, just like the soul, has an uncanny capacity for adaptation. Just as the nervous system cries out for more and more morphia, so do the emotions cry out for more and more pity, in the end more than one can give. Inevitably there comes a moment when one has to say 'No', and then one must not mind the other person's hating one more for this ultimate refusal than if one had never helped him at all. By Stefan Zweig Pity Business Confoundedly Twoedged Morphia

God pity the poor novelist. By Steven Millhauser God Novelist Pity Poor

Pity is the most destructive of the passions and unlike love and anger, it never passes. By Lydia Ginzburg Pity Anger Passes Destructive Passions

Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed. By Charles Caleb Colton Thing Avowed Seldom Felt Pity

To pity, without the power to relieve, is still more painful than to ask and be denied. By Richard Brinsley Sheridan Pity Relieve Denied Power Painful

Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se. By Friedrich Nietzsche Pity Perse Aims Pleasure Malice

How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage! By Ann Radcliffe Humanity Pity Assuage Despicable Contented

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 be given save that of scorn? By Oscar Wilde Pity Give Scorn Strangely Simple

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely. By Theodore Dreiser Pity Underestimate Hard Brilliant Fiercely

[On her mastectomy:] Pity is delicious. I was crazy about the pity I got. It was the best kind, too. I did not get, nor did I want, the drooling, mewing kind. I preferred something more restrained but deep-felt. Quality pity. By Betty Rollin Pity Mastectomy Delicious Kind Crazy

Pity me'the unspoken words upon a nation's lips'because I am indeed pitiable. I have been deprived of freedomyes, of course, all that. And of proper food and of fancy things, consumer durables and material wealth of every kind, all that. But mostly I have been robbed of my birthright, my mother, my father, my home. And how can I ever recover from that?' Then there is a murmur, as a last, despairing cry, the latest prayer'Market forces, market forces.' Say it over and over, as once the Hail Mary was said, to ward off all ills and rescue the soul, but we know in our hearts it won't work. There is no magic here contained. Wasted lives, lost souls, unfixable. Pity me, pity me, pity me. By Fay Weldon Pity Pitiable Methe Unspoken Words

Pity's tears are spontaneous. By Anna Cora Mowatt Pity Spontaneous Tears

Self-pity is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative. By Renata Adler Selfpity Sadness Pejorative

Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity is the shaking voice not enough money, not enough lovepity for all of usit is our grace, walking down the ramp or on the moving sidewalk, sitting in a chair, reading the paper, pity, turning a leaf to the light, arranging a thorn. By Jane Austen Pity Meat Shaking Life Pencil

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend. By Joyce Meyer Selfpity Real Problem Party Attend

Self-pity is a sin. It is a form of living suicide. By Charles J. Shields Selfpity Sin Suicide Form Living

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain. By Lillie Langtry Sympathy Charming Pain Make

Care and pity are two different things. By Vince Staples Care Things Pity

Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics. By Sebastian Horsley Selfpity Narcotics Destructive

Pity is a start, my friend, a foundation on which to build a palace - a palace of love. By J.k. Rowling Palace Pity Start Friend Love

In all disappointments sympathy is a great balm. By Elizabeth Gaskell Balm Disappointments Sympathy Great

Uncle Norm says, 'Pity is a form of abuse. By David Mitchell Pity Norm Uncle Abuse Form

Nothing but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life. By Joseph Henry Pity Infinite Life Sufficient Pathos

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read. By Benjamin Franklin Read Person Deserves Pity Lonesome

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. By Andre Maurois Selfpity Naturally Fool Solid Happiness

Show pity I beg you ... We have today been struck down by fortuneBut tomorrow it may be your own turn to die. By Giuseppe Verdi Show Pity Beg Die Today

Thus the engine of self-pity began to turn. By Ian Mcewan Turn Engine Selfpity Began

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly. By William Shakespeare Pity Foolishly Fools Speak Wisely

'Pity without rigor would be cowardly egotism, mere sentimentality.' By Matthew Pearl Pity Egotism Mere Sentimentality Rigor

The only shame is to have none. By Blaise Pascal Shame

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 ... By Graham Swift Pity Children Keepers Lockkeepers Lighthousekeepers

You know this is called self-pity. You don't care. By Taylor Jenkins Reid Selfpity Called Care

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love. By Stanley Kubrick Love Mistake Confuse Pity

Pity is exhaustible. What a terrible discovery! By Enid Bagnold Pity Exhaustible Discovery Terrible

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. By Aesop Water Drowning Stand Pitying Lend