#pity

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bandwagon #compassion #culture #fads #flattery

When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#serendipity #synchronicity #synchronicity

Oh dear. I do believe this is self-pity. I am imagining myself dramatically dead, tragically taken from you and even more lamentably forgotten. What dreadful clichés war and social strife reduces us to, and how powerful the effect must be, if even I am so infected. I think I must pull myself together. ↗

— Iain Banks

#self-pity #war #death

Some arrogant feel very confident that they are the best. That's pity. Much better men let them feel so for a reason. ↗

— Toba Beta

#better #confident #pity #reason #men

The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#self-pity #alone

Magari qualcosa, una moneta che cade, un piccolo braccialetto che si impiglia alla maglia di qualcuno, uno scontrino che scivola via, cambia il destino di una persona. E quella persona, per un piccolo, banalissimo gesto, non farà più le stesse cose che avrebbe fatto invece se quel gesto non si fosse verificato. E la sua vita prende un altro binario. Magari per sempre. Magari per un po' soltanto. Chissà. ↗

— Claudia Pintus

#destino #destiny #love #serendipity #sliding-doors

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#feel-sorry #marriage #pity #marriage