Those who do not complain are never pitied.
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How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.
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People who use their erudition to write for a learned minority... don't seem to me favored by fortune but rather to be pitied for their continuous self-torture. They add, change, remove, lay aside, take up, rephrase, show to their friends, keep for nine years and are never satisfied. And their futile reward, a word of praise from a handful of people, they win at such a cost -- so many late nights, such loss of sleep, sweetest of all things, and so much sweat and anguish... their health deteriorates, their looks are destroyed, they suffer partial or total blindness, poverty, ill-will, denial of pleasure, premature old age and early death.
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'A universe is indeed to be pitied whose dominating inhabitants are so unconscious and so ethically embryonic that they make life a commodity, mercy a disease, and systematic massacre a pastime and a profession.'
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Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
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Nightcrawler You know, outside the circus, most people were afraid of me. But I didn't hated them. I pitied them. Do you know why Because most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.
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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.
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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
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The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.
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