Mason Cooley Quotes

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn't a nice time.

I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't.

Don't feel sorry for me.

Nobody feels any worse than I do about losing.

I have the deepest respect for Eva Gabrielsson and all she has gone through, but I also know that I make maybe her sad, and I am sad about that, but I make so many other people happy.

We are truly to be pitied.

I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.

Andrew hated to see her humiliated and pathetic like this; but he half hated her too for landing herself in it, when any idiot could have seen.

I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love.

The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste their small store of sympathy on those who can provide it so richly for themselves.

Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.

Self-pity - it's the only pity that counts.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

The dew of compassion is a tear.

My heart gets very tender when it comes to playing someone who has wronged someone else. I almost feel like it's easier for me to play having been wronged than it is to actually feel like you had an active part in hurting someone.

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion.

I've never been one to take glee in anyone's demise, and when I saw Jerry Sandusky walk out in handcuffs, I did kind of feel a bit sorry for him, even though the jury found him to do some horrific things; I was like, 'His life is over.'

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

The condition of the wounded touched my heart deeply.

I believe, in general, that even people that are self-pitying, you can feel for them.

My heart bled for the inhabitants.

… bleeding hearts