Pity Quotes · Page 18

I pity anybody who has to spend a day with me.

— Marilyn Manson

Life's most underrated emotion is self-pity.

— Lionel Shriver

“Pity is a bitter thing, but it's better than hate.”

— Cassanc

“A sight to touch e’en hatred’s self with pity.”

— Sophocles

I usually set aside Sunday nights for debilitating self-pity.

— Anonymous

I learn to pity woes so like my own.

— John Dryden

Showing you pity doesn't do you any favors.

— Jillian Michaels

I pity you and your ignorance and stupidity

— Anonymous

To be without pity for other mens falls, is an evident sign that we shall fall ourselves shortly.

— Philip Neri

I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.

— Ferdinand Mount

Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity…

— Edward Bond

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

— William Law

A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's.

— Friedrich Schiller

Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?

— William Shakespeare

When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.

— Gautama Buddha

The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds.

— Frederick Lenz

I am not prone to weeping as our sex commonly are; the want of which vain dew perchance shall dry your pities;…

— William Shakespeare

“I'm not staying with him for the pain. It's what he says in his sleep. When he's moaning, he whispers. The cry…

— SHOOWA

It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had--yea, and that among very wise men--to find out rather a cunning man…

— Roger Ascham

I believe, as human beings, we sometimes indulge in self pity more than it's necessary. Over my life's journey, I have realised…

— Sonali Bendre

American feminism's nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a…

— Camille Paglia

[On her mastectomy:] Pity is delicious. I was crazy about the pity I got. It was the best kind, too. I did…

— Betty Rollin

Hey Ladies... give yourselves a break.No one owns your happiness.If someone doesn't make you happy then you should make yourself happy.Self pity…

— Natasha Nsemiwe

Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine.…

— Christopher Hitchens

Certainly. But take this into consideration: of every ten problems we have, nine are created by our own selves - through guilt,…

— Paulo Coelho

“A sigh or tear perhaps she'll give, But love on pity cannot live: Tell her that hearts for hearts were made, And…

— John Dryden

So they were turning, after all - those cameras. Life, which can be strangely merciful, had taken pity on Norma Desmond. The…

— Gloria Swanson

Really, just looking around, you feel a twinge of pity for the poor souls who succeeded in getting past the Pearly Gates.…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the…

— G. H. Hardy

It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the…

— Voltaire

Our president is a Christian? So was Adolf Hitler. What can be said to our young people, now that psychopathic personalities, which…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Pity would be no more If we did not make somebody Poor; And Mercy no more could be If all were as…

— William Blake

“We're like two peas in a pod""Pity the pod”

— James St. James

Mercy, Pity, Peace Is the world's release.

— William Blake

Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.

— Richard Wagner

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

— Aleksandar Hemon

I keep remembering — I keep remembering. My heart has no pity on me.

— Henri Barbusse

It would be a pity to have to vanish from the face of this earth with the music still playing inside you.

— Prakah Iyer

“People are always doing things for my sake and strangely enough, I'm the one who suffers for it.”

— Robert Masello

“Choosing to Let Go crashes the pity party thrown by all the “What ifs” and “If onlys.”

— Justin Young