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I love everybody and pity everybody. — Leo Tolstoy

Pity is a useless emotion — Jackson Pearce

Nothing is so binding as pity. — Alice Tisdale Hobart

Tragedy is an imitation not just of a complete action, but of events that evoke pity and fear. — Aristotle.

But God considers the sins of unforgiveness, anger, hatred, self-pity, lovelessness, and revenge to be just as bad as any others. — Stormie O'martian

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I don't know, I'm kinda busy. I've got a pity party scheduled for eight o'clock followed by wallowing at nine. — Mia Sheridan

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

Its a cold comfort to have people pity you. — Heather Davis

If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing. — George Bernard Shaw

Today is like yesterday and tomorrow will be the same as today. God, help us! Take pity of us! — Alexei Nikolaevich

Concern is a thin hair on the head of pity. — Lisa Genova

I can learn to pity a fool as I'm the worst of all
And I can't stop feeling sorry for myself — Fall Out Boy

She would prove to everyone she could do everything. She wouldn't let her disability be an excuse, wouldn't give anyone reason to pity her. — Liz Grace Davis

Almost all sadness comes from feeling sorry for oneself. — Marty Rubin

A man who loves money is a bastard, someone to be hated. A man who can't take care of it is a fool. You don't hate him, but you got to pity him. — Stephen King

All she felt was pity, and pity was death to desire — George R R Martin

That wasn't about pity.I'm going to come inside you.Soon.But I'm going to take you in a bed where I can do a hell of a lot more than a frantic fuck. — Katie Reus

However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. — Herman Melville

Try to avoid complaints. Self-pity even when legitimate never fails to undermine your strength.
— Mariane Pearl

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up. — W. Somerset Maugham

Piety and pity were a little to close to each other for my tastes. — Jodi Picoult

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

Pity how people are much loved and appreciated when they can no longer witness(late) — Evans Biya

When your fear touches someone's pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone's pain, it become compassion. — Stephen Levine

Do not pity yourself. If you wallow in self-pity, life will be an endless nightmare. — Kafka Asagiri

A pity you were not born a woman in this life, Little King of Lesser Land, for you seek only to please and to be admired by all. — Sharon Kay Penman

Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest. — Francis Beaumont

Compassion
is not helpless
pity, but an
awareness and
determination
that demands
action. — Dalai Lama

It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up. — W. Somerset Maugham

I love pity parties. I wish I'd brought hats - Christian — Richelle Mead

Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever. — James Agate

I never thought anyone would pity me because of my time in the Marine Corps. — Phil Klay

If I gave you a pity position it wouldn't be in my office. — Janet Evanovich

Gather up your pity and turn it to ambition. — Coolio

How often have our own tears blinded us to the tears of others. — Marty Rubin

It's a pity you didn't know when you started your game of murder, that I was playing, too. — Robb White

You'll do well, if you don't mire in self-pity. Self-pity only gets you more of the same. Don't waste time on it. — Robin Hobb

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean.
Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go. — Anne Carson

Don't you love your mother, dear?"
"I guess so. A hard, sharp, thorny kind of love that might be pity more than anything else. — Dean Koontz

I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel pity for my psychopaths, because I do. — Ruth Rendell

It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian. — Manfred Von Richthofen

Do not waste your pity on a scamp. — Aesop

Pity is nary a friend you want to invite, nor an acquaintance you would accompany. — Euphrates Arnaut Moss

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

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting. — Dave Matthews

Yes, but what is it good for? What does it mean?" Her look was full of pity. "If you have to ask that question, you wouldn't understand the answer. — John Varley

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. — Don Marquis

Time to stop crying, time to get her act together and do something. Time to move beyond the pity party. — Lisa McMann

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country. — Joseph Addison

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

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth. — Vincent Van Gogh

It will be a great pity if any feeling of jealousy or egotism gain ground amongst you. — Swami Vivekananda

Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are. — Yoko Ono

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

How often we all do so and what a pity it is that when morning comes and tomorrow is today we so frequently wake up feeling quite differently — Susan Coolidge

There was no room in his life for Marta, and none in her life for him; but it was a pity, all the same. — Josephine Tey

To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain. — Herman Melville

Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears. — Euripides

What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us. — Oscar Wilde

I pity people who do not care for Society. They are poorer for the oblation they do not make. — Elizabeth Bowen

There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

People who pity themselves think, 'Why would I try to do anything? I'll just fail.' — Joyce Meyer

There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy. — Honore De Balzac

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it. — Margot Asquith

here I am simply trying to get into your head
you think you were born you die what a pity — Ikkyu

They understood that brave men could be injured more by pity than by disease. — Dan Groat

It changed my whole outlook. I lost a decade to self-pity, and the next thing I knew I was turning 40. — Chris Hardwick

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

Supplication is to implore God for mercy and compassion, to have pity upon you or to grant you the request given and expect that He will do it. — Robin Bertram

Such is the human race. Often it seems such a pity that Noah.. didn't miss the boat. — Mark Twain

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

Pity us, yes, but we are brave, she thought, and wild, more life in us than we can bear, the fire infolding itself within us. — Marilynne Robinson

Against Self-Pity
It gets you nowhere but deeper into
your own shit
pure misery a luxury
one never learns to enjoy. — Rita Dove

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

Give me pity.
Flash.
Give me another chance.
Flash. — Chuck Palahniuk

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

When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity. — Jean Rostand

Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction — Virgil

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

If I wanted pity, I got it because I'm illegitimate. And when I didn't want it I was mean and nasty. — Ethel Waters

It's a pity that the rich have more freedom to hang or drown themselves than the rest of us Christians. — William Shakespeare

Of all the well-meant emotions pity is the cruelest to share. — Joan Slonczewski

Pity that child who was born near Rouen,
His only crime, to arrive deformed. — E.A. Bucchianeri

The house you live in will never fall down, if you pity the stranger who stands at your door. — Gordon Lightfoot

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

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

I pity the foo who kills all the Jews. — Ryan Boudinot

Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner, there ain't no hiding place from the Father of Creation. — Bob Marley

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make. — Eckhart Tolle

He is momentarily filled with a kind of pity for his son. What a task lies ahead of him: to learn literally everything. — Maggie O'Farrell

Self-pity is better than none. — Phyllis Diller

Although, at times, self-pity can feel strangely comforting, when it becomes too comfortable, you'll never leave. — Charles F. Glassman

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

When one has suffered or fears suffering, one pities those who suffer; but when one is suffering, one pities only oneself. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I learn to pity woes so like my own. — John Dryden

Most of the time nothing much is required of directors, which is a pity. — Asia Argento

Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying. — Regina Brett

Someone's having a pity party and didn't invite the rest of us. — Christopher Healy