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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 from reality.»
Author: John W. Gardner (Secretary, Writer) | About: Pity | Keywords: addictive, destructive, momentary, narcotic, narcotics, pity, self-pity, separates, Separate reality, The Victim, victim
«Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.»
Author: Sidonie Gabrielle | About: Writers, Writing | Keywords: author, destroy, head, Head down, judge, My Stuff, pities, pity, pitying, Pity Me, put down, sit, sit down, stuff, with pity, writer
«There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.»
Author: Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Writer) | Keywords: disillusionment, Girls, pity, recover, recovering, recovers
«Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.»
Author: Anatole France (Writer) | Keywords: owe, pities, pity, pitying, Pity Me, suffering, to it, value, virtues, with pity
«The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgment is never just.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence (Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Anger | Keywords: gentle, intuition, pity, sincere
«Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.»
Author: Helen Keller (Author, Educator) | About: Pity | Keywords: In this World, pities, pity, pitying, Pity Me, self-pity, with pity, yield
«Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.»
Author: Bertrand Russell (Logician, Philosopher) | About: Life, Passion | Keywords: governed, longing, overwhelmingly, passions, pity, search, The Search, The Suffering, unbearable
«We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Keywords: evils, experienced, pity
«Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: boat, boated, boating, human race, miss, Noah, other race, pities, pity, pitying, Pity Me, race, seems, such, with pity
«Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.»
Author: William Blake (Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet) | Keywords: Angel, cherish, drive, lest, pity, you-drive
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