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    Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won't suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when the person looks back-she will hear her heart

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Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe

Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Found in: Pity Quotes,
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To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

by Miguel De Unamuno Found in: Pity Quotes,
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None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware

None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware

by Robert Herrick Found in: Pity Quotes,
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Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation read more

Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity; but we have not pity unless we wish to relieve him.

by Samuel Johnson Found in: Pity Quotes,
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Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim read more

Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

by John W. Gardner Found in: Pity Quotes,
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Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead

by Mark Twain Found in: Pity Quotes,
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

by George Eliot Found in: Pity Quotes,
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We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced.

We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced.

by Jean-jacques Rousseau Found in: Pity Quotes,
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Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

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

by Helen Keller Found in: Pity Quotes,
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