Source: Humans of New York
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Source: I was a German: the autobiography of Ernst Toller
“What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.”
Source: The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches
Source: Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth.”
Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?”
“Pity, unlike hate, can be boxed and put away.”
Source: The Miniaturist
Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses
“It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.”
Source: The Threepenny Opera
“Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
Source: Views and reviews
“Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel.”
“People in distress never think that you feel enough.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Johnson (Illustrated)
Source: The Autobiography of Margot Asquith
“Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.”
“Pity is exhaustible. What a terrible discovery!”
Source: A Diary Without Dates
Source: Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things
“Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.”
“Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears.”
Source: Euripides
“Self-pity is the simplest luxury.”
Source: Bingo
“Americans began by loving youth, and now, out of adult self-pity, they worship it.”
Source: The House of Intellect
Source: A Serious Proposal to the Ladies
“Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.”
Source: A Shorter Ego: The Autobiography of James Agate
“Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?”
Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007
“The teeth of self-pity had gnawed away her essential self.”
“Pity the poor infant. Born perfect into the world from imperfect parents.”
“Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!”
Source: The Diary of a Country Priest
Source: act one