Pity Quotes
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Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.
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She dreams of him that has forgot her love; You dote on her that cares not for your love. 'Tis pity love should be so contrary; And thinking of it makes me cry 'alas!
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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.
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Love does nothing but make you weak! It turns you into an object of pity and derision-a mewling pathetic creature no more fit to live than a worm squirming on the pavement after a hard summer rain.
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Pity makes a thin drink, indeed.
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Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil
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The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.
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Almost all women have hearts full of pity.
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Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.
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If I wanted pity, I got it because I'm illegitimate. And when I didn't want it I was mean and nasty.
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It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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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.'
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When Eve upon the first of Men The apple press'd with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not Adamant!
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Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis.
