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“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.”
― J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never

“Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.”
― Paul Hoffman, The Last Four Things

“I wept in self-pity, and because I knew you could never go back. You chose your path, and that was it.”
― Juliet Marillier, Daughter of the Forest

“Vina e un vis, mila e singura realitate.”
― Thomas Keneally, Schindler’s List

“In the strangely simple economy of the world people only get what they give, and to those who have not enough imagination to penetrate the mere outward of things and feel pity, what pity can be given save that of scorn?”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“No weekends for the gods now. Wars
flicker, earth licks its open sores,
fresh breakage, fresh promotions, chance
assassinations, no advance.
Only man thinning out his own kind
sounds through the Sabbath noon, the blind
swipe of the pruner and his knife
busy about the tree of life...

Pity the planet, all joy gone
from this sweet volcanic cone;
peace to our children when they fall
in small war on the heels of small
war - until the end of time
to police th eearth, a ghost
orbiting forever lost
in our monotonous sublime.”
― Robert Lowell

“People pitied only what they could easily slaughter.”
― C.J. Hill, Slayers

“A sight to touch e’en hatred’s self with pity.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

“If we were to gain God's perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life accumulating and hoarding and displaying our things, we would have the same feelings of horror and pity that any sane person has when he views people in an asylum endlessly beating their heads against the wall.”
― Randy Alcorn, Money, Possessions, and Eternity: A Comprehensive Guide to What the Bible Says about Financial Stewardship, Generosity, Materialism, Retirement, Financial Planning, Gambling, Debt, and More

“Suppose it should turn out that no such person as Christ ever lived. What harm would that do justice or mercy? Wouldn't the tear of pity be as pure as now, and wouldn't justice, holding aloft her scales, from which she blows even the dust of prejudice, be as noble, as admirable as now? Is it not better to love justice and mercy than to love a name, and when you put a name above justice, above mercy, are you sure that you are benefiting your fellowmen?”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“The pity is that the public will demand and find a moral in my book, or worse they may take it in some serious way, and on the honour of a gentleman, there is not one single serious word in it.”
― James Joyce

“Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.”
― Paul Hoffman, The Last Four Things

“Pity. What a useless emotion when you don't act on it. Pity is supposed to trigger compassion.”
― Lish McBride, Heads Will Roll

“Is it a small thing to quench the flames of hell with the holy tears of pity -- to unbind the martyr from the stake -- break all the chains -- put out the fires of civil war -- stay the sword of the fanatic, and tear the bloody hands of the Church from the white throat of Science?
Is it a small thing to make men truly free -- to destroy the dogmas of ignorance, prejudice and power -- the poisoned fables of superstition, and drive from the beautiful face of the earth the fiend of fear?”
― Robert G. Ingersoll

“She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.”
― Dean Koontz, Forever Odd

“Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you--these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine Dark Ones.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Day Watch

“Non ignora mali, miseris succurrere disco.”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

“I feel the deepest, heartfelt pity for any adult who has never been in love.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“He saw her right after the seventh-period bell rang. She seemed dressed for the sole purpose of blending in with the lockers, but she stood out, anyway. It didn’t matter that her wide blue eyes were narrowed or that her pretty mouth was twisted into a near snarl �� she was blatantly beautiful. It was kind of sick the way Ed was preoccupied with beautiful girls these days.

He felt a little sorry for her. (He was also preoccupied with finding ways of feeling sorry for people.) She was new and trying hard not to look it. She was confused and trying to look tough. It was endearing is what it was.”
― Francine Pascal, Fearless

“Stop constantly pity other people for how unfortunate and miserable they are, it's unpleasent to hear that repeadetly. A man who do not pity himself do not deserve to be treated as a miserable person.
Once someone keeps hearing how unfortunate he will start to agree with this idea and then he will lose himself.”
― Fergus MacDermott

“I'm not staying with him for the pain. It's what he says in his sleep. When he's moaning, he whispers. The cry he utters with a face so full of sorrow.

"So..."

"...rry..."

"I'm sorry..."

It makes me sad that no one hears his apology.”
― SHOOWA, ジンと猫は呼ぶと来な�� [Jin to Neko wa Yobu to Konai]

“They say God appeared in history and used it for his purposes, but if that was so he had no pity for men.”
― Bernard Malamud, The Fixer

“I shot up out of my chair. “Change of plans. Finish your drink so we can go.��
Jay responded flatly, “Go where exactly?��
“I’m not sure but we’ll know it when we see it.��
He looked at his glass and back to me. “Why bother?��
I looked him the eye, seeing pain there and forcing myself not to flinch from it. “Because pity parties suck�� I started walking toward the exit and over my shoulder asked “You coming?��
He downed the rest of his drink and followed me out the door.”
― Amanda Kelly, Shifting Shadows

“I don’t feel pity for those, who give up by ending their own lives. They must not be so coward; in fact they are the most powerful people in the world, because everyone is scare of death, and they aren’t.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“The greatest miracle was that in the end I could actually feel pity for those men because they were so deluded: they thought they had power and really they had nothing. I will never forget it. And from that moment on I've never really hated anymore. It all turned around when I sat there thinking what poor empty souls they were.”
― Diet Eman, Things We Couldn't Say