To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
The fly has no pity for the thin man.
Frodo: [of Gollum] It's a pity Bilbo didn't kill him when he had the chance. Gandalf: Pity? It was pity that stayed Bilbo's hand. Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal ou...
Self-pity” is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative.
The human mind is not a dignified organ, and I do not see how we can exercise it sincerely except through eclecticism. And the only advice I would offer my fellow eclectics is: "Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that w...
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.
Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.
I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.
Addison DeWitt: You're maudlin and full of self-pity. You're magnificent!
Self-pity NEVER leads to happiness. Avoid it like it's a zombie plague.
Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.
An unearned income encourages self-pity in those already prone to it.
Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.
Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo me; have no pity for self-pity and so am free of that sweet basenes...
Where people know their work and do it, life has few blank spaces for boredom and they are seldom to be pitied. Where people have not yet found their work, they may be more pitied than those that beg their bread. When a man knows his work and will no...
Self-pity is the worst disability a person can have, Callie. It's crippling.
It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!
