“Of all the well-meant emotions pity is the cruelest to share.”

“Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.”

“But it is the nature of life that no emotion is meant to last forever…”

“His love was like the liberal air,—
Embracing all, to cheer and bless;
And every grief that mortals share
Found pity in his tenderness.”

“I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.”

“I never go to the cinema. I can't stand sitting in the dark with strangers -- all of us obliged to share the same emotional experiences -- it's too intimate. I like to be emotional in private.”

“Inevitably, in the secret chemistry of the emotions the feeling of pity for a sick person is imperceptibly bound up with tenderness.”

“Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love.”

“It is all too easy to forget that there are emotional motivations in history, as well as economic ones.”

“Emotions have no age. Living them and sharing through music give vitality.”