Pity Quotes

“Pity is a useless emotion”

— Jackson Pearce

Pity is a benign form of abuse.

— Michael J. Fox

Pity swells the tide of love.

— Edward Young

“I pity you, FOOL!”

— Mr. T

“Don't pity me, save me.”

— Tara Spears

Self-pity makes people callous.

— Mason Cooley

“Don't ever pity me.”

— Simone Elkeles

Soft pity enters an iron gate.

— William Shakespeare

No it isn't very pretty, what a town without pity can do.

— Gene Pitney

Pity the planet, all joy gone from this sweet volcanic cone

— Robert Lowell

Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others.

— Mason Cooley

“You’re too much of a pain in the ass to be pitied.”

— G.A. Aiken

An ounce of help is worth more than a pound of pity any day.

— Louise Jordan Miln

I've always regarded self-pity as a wasted emotion.

— Tanni Grey-Thompson

I love pity parties. I wish I'd brought hats" - Christian

— Richelle Mead

Ignorance may be bliss, but it is still pathetic.

— Isaiah Harden

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

— William Shakespeare

Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.

— Josh Billings

Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.

— Fanny Fern

I think the great unspoken theme in noir fiction is male self-pity. It pervades noir movies.

— James Ellroy

It was quite life-affirming, for me, that I felt hat kind of pity for [Margaret Thatcher], because I didn't think I ever…

— Irvine Welsh

A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity…

— Henry David Thoreau

There is no creature loves me; And if I die, no soul will pity me.

— William Shakespeare

Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.

— Elisabeth Elliot

“There was no word for self-pity in the language of the north-east of Scotland - the nearest being a word which is…

— Alexander McCall Smith

[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love…

— Mark Twain

“              The hostess looked him over.               “If it was, what would you do about it?”               “This happen a lot?”              …

— Anonymous

“The pity is that the public will demand and find a moral in my book, or worse they may take it in…

— James Joyce

“He wouldn't take a sandwich from me. He'd rather go into the Games starving than take food from my hand." "That's not…

— Suzanne Collins

Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are…

— Georges Bernanos

The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch…

— Marlene Dietrich

You remind me of the Siberian hunting spider, which adopts a highly convincing limp in three of its eight legs in order…

— Bill Bailey

For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as…

— Tom Robbins

There are some women in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else. Love is scarcely…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

“Poor little fellow! one only consolation have we; his friends mourn and weep, but he is at rest. The pang is over,…

— Anonymous

Ben Adaephon Delat," Pearl said plaintively, "see the last who comes. You send me to my death." "I know," Quick Ben whispered.…

— Steven Erikson

But mostly, I remembered what I’ve always believed. What my mom taught me. That while some things are just plain awful, most…

— Katherine Applegate

Be like a river in generosity and giving help. Be like a sun in tenderness and pity. Be like night when covering…

— Rumi