This is pity,” he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue.
Ayn RandDon't pity this sinful world!
Just pity those who made it so!
You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it.
Christopher HitchensTag: friends school bullying pity schoolmates
Some arrogant feel very confident that they are the best.
That's pity. Much better men let them feel so for a reason.
Tag: reason pity better confident arrogant
English : Don't pity if you don't help!
Indonesia: Usah kasihan jika tak bantu!
Tag: help pity bantu concerned kasihan prihatin
To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.
Herman MelvilleTag: pain human-condition pity
And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you--that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people.
Deb CalettiTag: strength people manipulation powerful pity feel sorry smarts
Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.
Friedrich NietzscheIt's not a problem. There are people out there with much worse problems than mine."-Cynthia
"Doesn't make yours any more fun to bear."-Liza
"No. But it does help with the self-pity."- Cynthia
Tag: perspective self-help pity best-friends personal-problems
So true it is, and so terrible too, that up to a certain point the thought or sight of misery enlists our best affections; but, in certain special cases, beyond that point it does not. They err who would assert that invariably this is owing to the inherent selfishness of the human heart. It rather proceeds from a certain hopelessness of remedying excessive and organic ill. To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain. And when at last it is perceived that such pity cannot lead to effectual succor, common sense bids the soul rid of it.
Herman MelvilleTag: pain empathy suffering helplessness hopelessness pity
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