PITY

Pity is for living, envy is for dead.
Mark Twain

Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong.
Sir Edwin Arnold

Of all the infirmities we have, the most savage is to despise our being.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Soft pity enters an iron gate.
William Shakespeare

If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly become the objects of pity.
Italian Proverbs

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Millicent Fenwick

Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.
Marquis De Sade

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

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

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
Jane Austen

There are few human emotions as warm, comforting, and enveloping as self-pity. And nothing is more corrosive and destructive. There is only one answer; turn away from it and move on.
Dr Megan Reik

God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.
Albert Camus

If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.
Samuel Johnson

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
Miguel De Unamuno

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

Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.
J. C. Macaulay

Pity is a thing often vowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.
Charles Caleb Colton

Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.
Josh Billings

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