Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Pity addresses the perceived suffering, not the whole individual.
Care and pity are two different things.
Pity is just another form of abuse.
To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
I believe, in general, that even people that are self-pitying, you can feel for them.
Pity sidesteps complexity in favor of narratives that we're comfortable with, reducing the nuances of a person's experience to a sound bite.
Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.
Pity is a benign form of abuse.