Pity Quotes · Page 23

Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning.

— Neale Donald Walsch

It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own.

— Louis Zukofsky

“self-pity was like quicksand. Dip one toe in and it slowly sucked in the rest of you, until you were drowning in…

— Dale Mayer

Above all others I pity the homeless: where can they go to masturbate?

— Robert Clark

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

— George Eliot

“Oh, yes, he’d spent a good portion of his day in self-pity. And now? Now he felt shame.”

— Cathy Maxwell

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.

— William Shakespeare

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

— Elizabeth Bowen

We work with the people not out of pity but out of respect for their potential for growth and development, both as…

— Y. C. James Yen

I've held a lot of pity parties for myself. There was a time when I never wanted to face the public again.…

— Anita Bryant

“I find it tiresome when people parade their agonies for public viewing; the last thing I want to evoke is pity. We…

— Jessica Zafra

The original sin of Republicans is greed. Everyone understands greed. Everybody wants to get theirs. The original sin of Democrats is pity.…

— John Scalzi

Speech is a powerful master and achieves the most divine feats with the smallest and least evident body. It can stop fear,…

— Gorgias

...long before the child learns to talk properly-and long before it learns to think philosophically-the world will have become a habit. A…

— Jostein Gaarder

“Those who hate, are merely wallowing in self pity. Those who lie about someone to destroy his or her spirit, are simply…

— Emma Paul

You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to…

— Nelson Algren

Post-wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language…

— Leslie Jamison

Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol'…

— David Foster Wallace

We lay on the ground and kissed. Perhaps you smile. That we only lay on the ground and kissed. You young people…

— John Fowles

“I was astonished by his complete lack of self-pity. Morrie, who could no longer dance, swim, bathe, or walk; Morrie, who could…

— Mitch Albom

“I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, ‘Tis all barren—and so it is; and so is…

— Laurence Sterne

I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt…

— Anonymous

Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity…

— Jane Austen

I was never great, but I was a good [basketball] player, and I could play seriously. Now I'm like one of these…

— Barack Obama

Nothing but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life.

— Joseph Henry

You shouldn't wallow in self-pity. But it's OK to put your feet in it and swish them around a little.

— Dick Guindon

“Do not pity yourself. If you wallow in self-pity, life will be an endless nightmare.”

— Kafka Asagiri

It is a pity that many Christians have the TV schedule better memorized than a single chapter for God's precious Word.

— Charles R. Swindoll

“Narcissism is as profitable to a model as scruffiness is to a homeless person.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I've seen your stormy seas and stormy women, And pity lovers rather more than seamen.

— Lord Byron

“Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.”

— Paul Hoffman

“there is nothing worse than pity. It just makes you feel guiltier.”

— Ava Dellaira

Jealous of me? Unfortunately, Your lack of self worth does not merit my pity.

— Josh Q

If I had to feel one thing towards Jim Hellwig, I guess it would be pity a little bit.

— Ted DiBiase Sr

Self-pity is like chocolate; as you get older, you can only afford a little bit.

— Charlaine Harris

“Why wallow in a puddle of self pity when there's a sea of self acceptance and self realisation waiting for you?”

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Pity isn't the only thing I don't do. Princesses are high on my lists too.”

— Nyrae Dawn

What pity 'tis, one that can speak so well, Should in his actions be so ill!

— Philip Massinger

Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.

— Honore de Balzac

New York City gritty committee pity the fool that act shitty in the midst of the calm, the witty.

— Pharoahe Monch