“How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in Christian Sensibility over the sorrows of our human Brethren and Sisteren, we are in fact, tho' perhaps unconsciously, moved at the prospect of our own End for who sincerely pities Sea-sickness, Toothache, or a fit of the Gout in a lusty Good-liver of 50?” HumansEndsFactsChristianVirtueSeaFitSorrowMovedPitySicknessSensibilitySincerelyFear Of DeathMeltingLiverBrethrenToothacheGout Book:Collected Letters: 1820-1825 Source: Collected Letters: 1820-1825
“I remember thinking, without pride of self-pity, that I was not rich or poor, that I wasn't good or bad. But that was difficult: to be neither good nor bad. It seemed to me, in the end, the same as being bad.” ThinkingEndsSelfRememberDifficultPoorRichPridePitySelf PityRich Or PoorBeing Bad Author:Alejandro Zambra
“Sweat has the power to end a pity party in such a way that even the hostess is happy.” WayEndsPartyPitySweatHostessesPity Party Author:Kristin Armstrong
“Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone.” EndsDiesDeserveMiseryJewPityOppressedRotten Author:John Calvin