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"My friends and my road-fellows, pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own winepress. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block. Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another with trumpetings again. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation." »Kahlil Gibran
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"As pity moved into that hole inside her, she discovered how distant pity was from hate, how very far it was from love." »Robert Cormier, We All Fall Down
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"I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;
And if I die no soul will pity me:
And wherefore should they, since that I myself
Find in myself no pity to myself?" »William Shakespeare, Richard III, V.iii
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"What pity is it that we can die but once to serve our country" »Joseph Addison
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"It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"A snake deserves no pity." »Yiddish Proverb
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"It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love." »William Butler Yeats
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"Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly." »William Shakespeare
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"Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." »Don Marquis
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"Pity is the virture of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly." »William Shakespeare
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"Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too." »William Blake
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"Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat." »Mark Twain
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"To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike." »Horace Mann
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"The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly." »William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 1 Scene 2, character: Touchstone
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"What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it." »Margot Asquith
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"Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them." »Author Unknown
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"self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world." »Helen Keller
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"For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little." »Rachel Carson
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"Suffering . We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues." »Anatole France
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"What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it." »Margot Asquith
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"Motherhood is a wonderful thing - what a pity to waste it on children." »Judith Pugh
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"How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue Who would not be that youth What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country" »Joseph Addison
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"Honesty rare as a man without self-pity, kinders as large and plain as a prairie wind." »Stephen Vincent Benet
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"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
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"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else." »Henry Ward Beecher
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"Human speech is a cracked cauldron on which we knock out tunes for dancing bears, when we wish to conjure pity from the stars." »Gustave Flaubert, "Madame Bovary"
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"self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality." »John W. Gardner
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"self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best." »Richard Willard Armour
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"On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all -- the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved." »Mark Twain
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