Feeling sorry for our bodies ought to be the closest we get to feeling sorry for ourselves.

Pitying a living man for being poor is like envying a dead man for being rich.

Some people are rightly pitied by someone or people by whom they are wrongly convinced that they are envied.

Most people often greet out of pity or insecurity.

We often pity someone we ought to envy, or envy someone we ought to pity.

Wishing is usually an indirect way of feeling sorry for yourself.

A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.

Narcissism is as profitable to a model as scruffiness is to a homeless person.

We often worsen someone’s pain by pitying them openly.