Mitleid Quotes & Sayings

I cannot but feel compassion when I hear some trig, compact-looking man, seemingly free, all girded and ready, speak of his 'furniture,' as whether it is insured or not. 'But what shall I do with my furniture?' ... It would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise a sick one to lay down his bed and run. — Henry David Thoreau

Or they'd listen, but they wouldn't care. No one would. Hearing about vacations is like hearing about dreams-no one cares except the person who's experienced them. Without tastes and scents and context, they're meaningless. — Kirsten Hubbard

And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked. — Dr. Seuss

When I said on national television I still struggle, a reparative therapist called me and said if you'll come into therapy with me I can cure you of your temptations and attractions 100 percent. And then there are the offers of using homosexual pornography within the therapeutic process to help people understand why they're struggling. — Alan Chambers

Too many judges are fooled into thinking a smile equals style. — Neshka Robeva

Good or bad? Right or wrong? That's what you're asking me? You'd be surprised how often you can't tell the difference. How often they want the same thing. — Robyn Roze

Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community. — Larry Harvey

I can say 100% that Westlife is not breaking up. — Shane Filan

Mind where you're going, people muttered at me. I hated them, but really the person I hated was myself. I fled. — Rachel Joyce

Mrs. Agnew wasn't the kind of woman that made me think about romance. She reminded me of an unmade bed. — Fiona Quinn

The tortoise moves very slowly, it moves towards whatever the goal is, to keep a democratic capitalistic society functioning. — Lewis Black

The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag. — Seneca The Younger

He considered getting up to check the color of the bong he'd be using but decided that obsessive checking and convulsive movements could compromise the atmosphere of casual calm he needed to maintain while he waited, protruding but not moving, for the woman he'd met at a design session for his agency's small campaign for her small theater company's new Wedekind festival, while he waited for this woman, with whom he'd had intercourse twice, to honor her casual promise. — David Foster Wallace

And after all, if stupidity did not, when seen from within, look so exactly like talent as to be mistaken for it, and if it could not, when seen from the outside, appear as progress, genius, hope, and improvement, doubtless no one would want to be stupid, and there would be no stupidity. — Robert Musil

I was hit by a car. I almost died. My show was taken away from me. I was frightened. — Eileen Brennan