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Pity is a benign form of abuse. -- Michael J. Fox
Give me pity.
Flash.
Give me empathy.
Flash. -- Chuck Palahniuk
How much to be pitied is he, who has no pity! -- Publilius Syrus
Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing. -- Josh Billings
I pity the poverty of your wealth. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save. -- Edwin Arlington Robinson
I pity the man who can't cry. -- Janny Wurts
Pity is woman's sweetest charm. -- Honore De Balzac
Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing. -- Eugene H. Peterson
God give me anything but a good man's pity. -- Kresley Cole
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
I never wanted anyone's pity. -- Jake Weber
Pity is nary a friend you want to invite, nor an acquaintance you would accompany. -- Euphrates Arnaut Moss
Even your pity is like a blast of wind and the words you speak would strip a tree of its blossoms. -- Tulsidas
Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror. -- Anne Roiphe
Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
That's the funny thing about pity, Saint. It's condescending by default. -- Wildbow
pity very often - not always - comes with an unspoken and sometimes unrecognized element of contempt. -- Dean Koontz
We pity people too often for the wrong reasons. -- Katherine Anne Porter
Pity makes a thin drink, indeed. -- Caroline Pafford Miller
I spit upon your pity. -- George R R Martin
Pity addresses the perceived suffering, not the whole individual. -- Phil Klay
Pity and friendship seek different habitations. -- Helen Hunt
Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I pity for those that suffer and humiliate themselves for the approval of others because they are truly stupid. -- Daniel Marques
Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
But pity was not action. It was not love. Pity, like passion, was no more than a kind of instinct. -- Shusaku Endo
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
Pity is not forgiveness, nor is gratitude absolution. -- Pierce Brown
Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others. -- Mason Cooley
Self-pity is ... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink. -- Elisabeth Elliot
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. -- Jennifer Estep
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. -- Elizabeth Isaacs
I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else. -- Josh Billings
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
Pity makes suffering contagious. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Pity is akin to love. -- Thomas Southerne
PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast. -- Ambrose Bierce
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
Pity runs its course. An hour comes when no hand but your own can build your future. -- Zelda Popkin
Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes. -- Aidan Chambers
Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient. -- Boleslaw Prus
I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post. -- Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
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. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Self-pity is the worst disability a person can have, Callie. It's crippling. -- Shelley D Terrell
Pity . . . is more properly bestowed in cases of involuntary suffering than of crime and offences committed voluntarily and with malice aforethought. -- Antiphon
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. -- Nick Hornby
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. -- Richard Wright
Shame... cannot survive empathy. -- Brene Brown
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds. -- William Shakespeare
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. -- Moss Hart
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
I step back,
hating pity,
having learned
from Mother that
the pity giver
feels better,
never the pity receiver. -- Thanhha Lai
Pity, I knew, was just disrespect wrapped in kindness. I had to address it early, or it would grow unwieldy in time. -- Veronica Roth
Pity melts the mind to love. -- John Dryden
I pity you, FOOL! -- Mr. T
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
Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world. -- Oswald Chambers
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. -- Samuel Johnson
Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman. -- Vicki Baum
One grows out of pity when it's useless. -- Albert Camus
You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention. -- Bernard Malamud
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
Pity is the most destructive of the passions and unlike love and anger, it never passes. -- Lydia Ginzburg
Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed. -- Charles Caleb Colton
To pity, without the power to relieve, is still more painful than to ask and be denied. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage! -- Ann Radcliffe
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? -- Oscar Wilde
Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely. -- Theodore Dreiser
[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. -- Betty Rollin
Pity's tears are spontaneous. -- Anna Cora Mowatt
Self-pity is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative. -- Renata Adler
I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend. -- Joyce Meyer
Self-pity is a sin. It is a form of living suicide. -- Charles J. Shields
Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain. -- Lillie Langtry
Care and pity are two different things. -- Vince Staples
Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics. -- Sebastian Horsley
Pity is a start, my friend, a foundation on which to build a palace - a palace of love. -- J.k. Rowling
In all disappointments sympathy is a great balm. -- Elizabeth Gaskell
Give me pity.
Flash.
Give me another chance.
Flash. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Uncle Norm says, 'Pity is a form of abuse. -- David Mitchell
Nothing but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life. -- Joseph Henry
The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read. -- Benjamin Franklin
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. -- Andre Maurois
Pity's akin to love; and every thought
Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul. -- Thomas Southerne
Thus the engine of self-pity began to turn. -- Ian Mcewan
The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly. -- William Shakespeare
'Pity without rigor would be cowardly egotism, mere sentimentality.' -- Matthew Pearl
The only shame is to have none. -- Blaise Pascal
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
You know this is called self-pity. You don't care. -- Taylor Jenkins Reid
It's a mistake to confuse pity with love. -- Stanley Kubrick
Pity is exhaustible. What a terrible discovery! -- Enid Bagnold
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
It's not pity, Isabelle. It's survival. I'm not letting you go through this alone. I'll see you at eleven. -- Melyssa Winchester
Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable. -- Maya Angelou
Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable. Curly -- Maya Angelou
Sympathy is a sweet thing. -- Louisa May Alcott
