{"quotes":[{"text":"Being sorry for myself is a luxury I can't afford.","author":"Stephen King","tags":["self","pity"],"id":1926,"author_id":"Stephen+King"},{"text":"The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit. The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate guidance of the mating instinct, Several European countries and a number of states of the American Union sterilize the criminal and the insane. This is not sufficient. The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny. A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.","author":"Nikola Tesla","tags":["breed","breeding","civilization","eugenics","government","instinct","marriage","mating","nature","past","pity","prediction","progeny","race"],"id":2725,"author_id":"Nikola+Tesla"},{"text":"Grumbling is the death of love.","author":"Marlene Dietrich","tags":["self","pity"],"id":5082,"author_id":"Marlene+Dietrich"},{"text":"As a kid my heart would break for the villains.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["child","compassion","empathy","funny","heart","heartbreak","heartbroken","hero","humor","pity","sympathy","villain"],"id":5847,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"As so many commitments demand your timeOr your shut-eye important be,Your attraction to me must in some way lack,Such a pity to spend time on thee.","author":"Charlotte M. Liebel","tags":["annoyed","attention","attitude","attraction","commitment","demands","lack-of-interest","love","pity","sleep","unrequited-love"],"id":6883,"author_id":"Charlotte+M.+Liebel"},{"text":"Despair is criminal.","author":"Samuel Johnson","tags":["self","pity"],"id":7317,"author_id":"Samuel+Johnson"},{"text":"- in the end she felt pity for me, for the lost man. And when a girl's heart is moved to pity, that is, of course, most dangerous for her. She's sure to want to 'save' him then, to bring him to reason, to resurrect him, to call him to nobler aims, to regenerate him into a new life and new activity. Well, everyone knows what can be dreamt up in that vein. I saw at once that the bird was flying into my net on its own.","author":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky","tags":["love-hurts","pity","self-sacrifice"],"id":13027,"author_id":"Fyodor+Dostoyevsky"},{"text":"You will achieve what you want to achieve, only if you can cope with the theory of altruism.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["achievement","achievers","altruism","benevolence","compassion","feelings","giver","giving","help","helping","helping-the-poor","letting-go","love","magnanimity","michael-bassey-johnson","pity","poverty","rendering","sacrifice","surrender","unattachment"],"id":13330,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Narcissism is as profitable to a model as scruffiness is to a homeless person.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["advertising","appearance","clothing","fashion","homelessness","image","model","modeling","modelling","models","narcissism","narcissists","personal-brand","personal-branding","pity","poverty","presentation"],"id":15100,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"The Lord has put more hardships atop the shoulders of my neighbors — more than I can even fathom coping with. I will strive to find a way to turn pity into admiration, for what use is it to send pity back at the world. Admiration and awe are much more helpful, especially when I find myself feeling like a victim for being stuck in traffic or losing my favorite sweater. Perspective is a blessing.","author":"Erica Goros","tags":["coping","ego","faith","god","humility","inspiration","pity"],"id":20366,"author_id":"Erica+Goros"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":213,"pages":22,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}