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“There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and forget everybody else! It sounds egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.” Anne Frank, “The Diary of a Young Girl” - 1947

“The judge speaks in the name of justice; the priest speaks in the name of pity, which is nothing but a more lofty justice.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all, those who live without love.” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” - 2007

“Is there no pity sitting in the clouds that sees into the bottom of my grief?” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” - 1597

“Those who do not complain are never pitied.” Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice” - 28 January 1813

“Were't not for laughing, I should pity him.” William Shakespeare, “Henry IV, Part 1” - 1597

“His injury the gaoler to his pity.” William Shakespeare, “Coriolanus” - 1623

“Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer. Terror is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and...” James Joyce, “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” - 1916

“Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.” William Shakespeare, “Timon of Athens” - 1623

“Tis pity bounty had not eyes behind, that man might ne'er be wretched for his mind.” William Shakespeare, “Timon of Athens” - 1623

“Urge them while their souls are capable of this ambition, lest zeal, now melted by the windy breath of soft petitions, pity, and remorse, cool and congeal again to what it was.” William Shakespeare, “King John” - 1623

“Moreover the wealthy may have pity beyond right on the needy that befriended them when they were in want.” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Hobbit” - 1937

“I tried to look earnest, but I only succeeded in looking pathetic.” Henry Miller, “Tropic of Cancer” - 1934

“Pity we haven't got a bit of rope.” Samuel Beckett, “Waiting for Godot” - 1953

“Tears of forlornness and self-pity welled out of his eyes.” Ian Fleming, “Casino Royale” - 1953

“And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.” George R. R. Martin, “A Game of Thrones” - 1996

“I wished to be loved by another . . . But I desire no man’s pity.” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Return of the King” - 1955

“Be sure that he took so little hurt from the evil, and escaped in the end, because he began his ownership of the Ring so. With Pity.” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Fellowship of the Ring” - 1954

“It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.” H. G. Wells, “The Island of Doctor Moreau” - 1896

“She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd; And I lov'd her that she did pity them.” William Shakespeare, “Othello” - 1623

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Tropic of Cancer (1)
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (1)
The Fellowship of the Ring (1)
The Return of the King (1)
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