“The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady; one can pity someone who is suffering ; someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.” WantMeanSufferingLaughingDiseaseRidiculousPityScratchesMalady Author:Andre Gide
“I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition.” StillsConditionsTaughtDiseasePityMotorNeurons Author:Stephen Hawking
“The action of Pity leaps quicker than light from the highest place to the lowest to bring healing and joy, whatever the cost to itself. It changes darkness into light and evil into good. But it will not, at the cunning tears of Hell, impose on good the tyranny of evil. Every disease that submits to a cure shall be cured: but we will not call blue yellow to please those who insist on having jaundice, nor make a midden of the world's garden for the sake of some who cannot abide the smell of roses.” WorldInspirationalLightActionJoyEvilReligiousHealingDarknessHellTearsPleaseCostDiseaseHighestGardenBlueRoseSakeSmellTyrannyPityCuresLeapYellowSubmitLowestCunningJaundice Author:C. S. Lewis
“Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.” ChristianDiseasePityModernity Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.” DoeSelfDiseasePitySelf Pity Author:Aidan Chambers
“Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It] is an incapacity, a crippling emotional disease that severely distorts our perception of reality . . . a narcotic that leaves its addicts wasted and derelict.” HumansSelfRealityHuman BeingsEmotionAttitudeEmotionalDiseasePerceptionAvailablePityAddictSelf PityNarcoticsIgnobleIncapacityPerception RealityDerelict Author:Eugene H. Peterson
“God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.” SelfGodSidesDespairDiseasePityCuresSelf Pity Book:Carnets: 1935-1942 Source: Carnets: 1935-1942