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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.

Pity is just another form of abuse.

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

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

Pity is a benign form of abuse.

Pity sidesteps complexity in favor of narratives that we're comfortable with, reducing the nuances of a person's experience to a sound bite.

In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings.

Pity addresses the perceived suffering, not the whole individual.

Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.