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“Art should be independent of all clap-trap - should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it; and that is why I insist on calling my works 'arrangements' and 'harmonies.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of James McNeill Whistler (Illustrated)

“The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.”

Men Facts Emotion Cases He Man Judging Essentials Prejudice Anger Pity Appeals

Book:Rhetoric

Source: Rhetoric

“We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving you have no time for this. You just push these emotions out.”

People Giving Self Light Emotion Yoga Guilt Karma Pity Indulge Self Pity Indulge In Karma Yoga Self Giving

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Self-pity is an ignoble emotion, but we all feel it, and the orthodox critical line that it represents some kind of artistic flaw is dubious, a form of emotional correctness.”

Feels Kind Self Form Lines Emotion Emotional Critical Pity Artistic Orthodox Flaws Self Pity Correctness Dubious Ignoble

Book:Songbook

Source: Songbook

“A man is seldom more manly than when he is what you call unmanned,--the source of his emotion is championship, pity, and courage; the instinctive desire to cherish those who are innocent and unhappy, and defend those who are tender and weak.”

Men Desire Emotion Tears Source Weak Unhappy Innocent Pity Cherish Championship Manly

Book:Miscellanies: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers

Source: Miscellanies: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers

“Self-pity is, perhaps, the least becoming of all emotions, and we often indulge in it only beause we are too exhausted to resist.”

Self Emotion Becoming Pity Exhausted Indulge Self Pity Indulge In

Author:Ivy Baker Priest

“Of all the well-meant emotions pity is the cruelest to share.”

Wells Emotion Share Pity

Author:Joan Slonczewski

“One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.”

Self Emotion Creative Depends Pity Impulse Dramatic Recalls Self Pity Sellers Best Sellers

Author:V. S. Pritchett

“He [Aristotle] pointed out that people who had become initiates in the various mystery religions were not required to learn any facts 'but to experience certain emotions and to be put in a certain disposition.' Hence his famous literary theory that tragedy effected a purification (katharsis) of the emotions of terror and pity that amounted to an experience of rebirth.”

People Facts Certain Emotion Mystery Theory Tragedy Terror Various Pity Disposition Rebirth Initiate Purification Literary Theory

Author:Karen Armstrong

“Such exceptional suffering and calamity, then, affecting the hero, and-we must now add-generally extending far and wide beyond him, so as to make the whole scene a scene of woe, are an essential ingredient in tragedy and a chief source of the tragic emotions, and especially of pity. But the proportions of this ingredient, and the direction taken by tragic pity, will naturally vary greatly.”

Whole Suffering Emotion Taken Source Hero Scene Essentials Tragedy Add Wide Pity Chiefs Proportion Tragic Ingredients Woe Exceptional Calamity Vary Extending

Author:A. C. Bradley

“Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - 'It destroys everything around it, except itself.'”

Thinking Way Said Self Emotion Worst Hatred Pity Destructive Self Pity Wilde Paraphrase

Author:Stephen Fry