Pity Quotes · Page 28

“Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.

— Anatole France

In extreme danger fear feels no pity. [Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.]

— Julius Caesar

Jesus made me, so he should save me from pity, sympathy and idiots discussing me.

— Steven Morrissey

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

— Ivan Turgenev

“I had become so distant from my true self that I was not even capable of self-pity.”

— Cezmi Ersöz

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

— Wilfred Owen

Listen and understand. That Terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity,…

— Michael Biehn

In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense…

— Nikola Tesla

I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work…

— Agatha Christie

What would you do? Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood…

— Tim O'Brien

The French constitute the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation in Europe and the best qualified in turn to become an…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Just about the worst thing a leader can nurture in his heart is self-pity. And just about the worst thing a leader…

— Kevin DeYoung

Sometimes, you know, I cry. And sometimes I scream. And I get really angry. And I get really upset, you know, into…

— Christina Applegate

And therefore I looked down into the great pity of a person’s life on this earth. I don’t mean that we all…

— Denis Johnson

I cannot always sympathize with that demand which we hear so frequently for cheap things. Things may be too cheap. They are…

— Benjamin Harrison

It was a pity that there was no radar to guide one across the trackless seas of life. Every man had to…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and…

— Tim O'Brien

When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then…

— Adolf Hitler

I hurt for my Marines, goodhearted American guys who'd bear these burdens for the rest of their lives. And I mourned for…

— Nathaniel Fick

One wears one's mind out in study, and yet has more mind with which to study. One gives away one's heart in…

— Milton Steinberg

In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for…

— Mary J. Blige

Clary grinned. "A picnic? It's a little late for Central Park, don't you think? It's full of-" He waved a hand. "Faeries.…

— Cassandra Clare

If every man's internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?

— Pietro Metastasio

When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I am out there to win.

— Joe Frazier

“I believed she'd gotten past ther hatred of me, turning to pity instead. But how could I make that into love?”

— Alex Flinn

“Wealth means nothing if you believe such a life affords you the right to pity, Caitie. It affords us great responsibility.”

— Melissa Petreshock

“What a pity it is that we've lived the lives that we've lived.”

— Katherine Ewell

Dear myself, why do you cut your self and expect someone to pity you and say your beautiful? Because your not your…

— Luna

Pity those who seek for shepherds, instead of longing for freedom!

— Paulo Coelho

What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree...

— Elizabeth George Speare

“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

Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.

— John Berryman

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

— Elizabeth Bowen

I have always had a slight feeling of pity for man who has no knowledge of chess.

— Siegbert Tarrasch

Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save.

— Edwin Arlington Robinson

“No pity for these things, there is no pity but mine, oh father, for the pity of your butchering rawblood death.”

— Sophocles

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use…

— Rachel Carson

“It is such a pity how some people Are dead long before their hearts stop beating.”

— Justin Wetch