#pity

She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires. ↗

— Edwin A. Robinson

#having #knows #pity #played #she

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity. ↗

— Stephen Vincent Benet

#honesty is #man #rare #self-pity #without

Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead. ↗

— William Collins

#charm #dead #life #more #mourned

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

#fear #had #induce #inertia #love

It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers. ↗

— Chauncey Depew

#had #instead #landed #landing #pilgrim

If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel sorry for myself. And then hate myself for this feeling of self-pity. ↗

— Julie Nixon Eisenhower

#difficult #feel #feeling #hate #i

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#contempt #excite #fortune #more #pity

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. ↗

— Helen Keller

#enemy #never #our #self-pity #wise

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#concern #demands #giving #impersonal #little

I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love. ↗

— Karen Kingsbury

#celebrities #deep #destroyed #developed #everyone