Dante Alighieri Quotes

I don't really get scared. Want to know what else i don't feel?" PITY

There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart; he does not feel for man.

Pity those who don't feel anything at all

To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity, is a state more gloomy than solitude; it is not retreat, but exclusion from mankind. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.

I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy.

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

George Eliot tenderly carried in her heart the burdens of our race. She looked through pity's tears upon the faults and frailties of mankind.

Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.

Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.

I certainly was not going to add to his humiliation in the hour of defeat.

So many of the high ranking about me have discarded mercy as a weakness.

Pity is treason

You pity the fool because you don't want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won't have to beat him up. So that's why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don't know no better. That's why I pity them!

Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.

I definitely wouldn't wish death on anyone.

They say that I'm very calculated and not very sensitive - that a regular, average person, there are many things that bother them, and I don't see or feel it.

Most people have the ability to turn their empathy engine back on, but there's such a seductive burn to not being empathetic.