Pity Quotes

They understood that brave men could be injured more by pity than by disease.

The moment you tell someone else is the moment you become a whiner and the world’s smallest violin starts to play. The truth is, we all have problems.

How often have our own tears blinded us to the tears of others.

It is not love that transforms the world, but pity.

Feel pity for the person who judged you rudely. For they are selfish in their judgment, trying to make their life feel just a little bit better. It was never about you it was all about them.

She expected no judgement and wanted no pity.

Personal disillusionment accompanied by self-pity and self-loathing are the Achilles’ heel of modern humankind, representing the weakness of the human spirit.

Even in that difficult hour when he knew death was imminent, he never indulged in self-pity. He knew intuitively that a person is only a victim if he accepts himself as one.

Against Self-PityIt gets you nowhere but deeper intoyour own shit--pure misery a luxuryone never learns to enjoy.

Self-pity NEVER leads to happiness. Avoid it like it's a zombie plague.

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord and that which he hath given will he pay him again.

What poison is to food self-pity is to life.

Grumbling is the death of love.

To feel sorry for oneself is one of the most disintegrating things the individual can do to himself.

Self-pity is one of the most dangerous forms of self-centeredness. It fogs our vision.

Sympathy is never wasted except when you give it to yourself.

He who complains sins.

There is only one way to end a self-pity cycle: stop comparing yourself to others and simply follow Christ.

Suffering isn't ennobling recovery is.

When you find yourself overpowered as it were by melancholy the best way is to go out and do something.

The best mask for demoralization is daring.

Self-pity is a death that has no resurrection a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.

Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a man deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost.

Our family never had any hard luck because nothing seemed hard luck to it nor was it ever disgraced for there was nothing which it would acknowledge as disgrace.

Others may argue about whether the world ends with a bang or a whimper. I just want to make sure mine doesn't end with a whine.

Pain is inevitable suffering is optional.

It's not the load that breaks you down it's the way you carry it.

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermit-tent gloom.

Never give way to melancholy resist it steadily for the habit will encroach.

Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint or hope of hearing?

You didn't choose God. He chose you. When you stop feeling hurt by everyone and plotting your comeback, he has some very important things he wants you to accomplish with your life.

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!