pity

To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.

You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.

Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason not that you have no reason for living.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

I am convinced the longer I live that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose.

The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.

Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

A pity to survive night flights over St. Georges Channel only to crack my skull falling from a ladder.

Whenever she saw in others an advantage, however trivial, which she herself lacked, she would persuade herself that it was no advantage at all, but a drawback, and would pity so as not to have to envy them.

Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.

Self-pity NEVER leads to happiness. Avoid it like it's a zombie plague.

Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.

Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the dying moan of the sirens continued for a moment or two to vibrate within the ear. It seemed to Scobie later that this was the ultimate border he had reached in happiness: being in darkness, alone, with the rain falling, without love or pity.

Feel pity for the person who judged you rudely. For they are selfish in their judgment, trying to make their life feel just a little bit better. It was never about you it was all about them.

She expected no judgement and wanted no pity.