Pity Quotes · Page 31

Religion is an edifice built upon the dream of a beautiful world... Pity the dreamers are rarely builders.

— Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal

Great God, have pity on the wicked, for thou didst everything for the good, when thou madest them good!

— Saadi

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in…

— Benjamin Harrison

Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity.

— William Shakespeare

It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation.

— Katharine Whitehorn

I go down the street, people see me: 'Hey, I pity-' right on, man, that's a compliment to me.

— Mr. T

“Filled with self-pity and calling himself “a man who had given up his life for his country and for Africa,” he”

— Adam Hochschild

Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison.

— John Frederick Boyes

The first rose on my rose-tree Budded, bloomed, and shattered, During sad days when to me Nothing mattered. Grief or grief has…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Surely a man must be in a parlours state to excite pity, extremely weak to inspire sympathy, or very evil-looking to make…

— Honoré de Balzac

“Tutt’al più commuoversi sugli altri,mai su se stesso. To pity others perhaps, never to pity one’s self. Be touched by others, don’t…

— Cesare Pavese

Ive never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion. We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesnt…

— Randy Pausch

That foolishness is what people call pride. That pride that you'd die to protect... why can't I have it? Did you pity…

— Jo Yoon-hee

Through heaven and earth God's will moves freely, and I follow it, As color follows light. He overflows The firmamental walls with…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

You rave about the Holy Place (Masjid al-Haram) and say you've visited God's garden but where is your bunch of flowers? There…

— Rumi

I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding…

— Booker T. Washington

A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves.…

— Wendy Mass

The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion…

— John Berger

Your spirit is the duster of any spider web. Behind every finish line, there is a start one. Behind every success, there…

— Mother Teresa

The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice.…

— Anonymous

How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to…

— Anonymous

there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail,…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

There's great sadness and life doesn't work out like you would want, on a lot of levels, but there's no need to…

— Mike Mills

Oh northern mothers wives and sisters, all unconscious of the hour, would to Heaven that I could bear for you the concentrated…

— Clara Barton

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!

— Sydney Smith

Tears have a better character cried alone. Pity can sometimes be more wolf than dog.

— Sebastian Barry

Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either

— Garrison Keillor

He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.

— Anais Nin

For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.

— Halldór Laxness

“A man’s capacity to feel sorry for himself is bottomless: once you take that first step, it’s an easy slide down.”

— Charles Bock

The great basis of the Christian faith is compassion; do not dismiss that from your hearts, neither will your Maker.

— Theodore Parker

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

— Miguel de Cervantes

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

— Muriel Barbery

There's a lot that you can be And ain't it a pity But its alright to smile back at me

— Shannon Hoon

“She discovered how distant pity was from hate, how very far it was from love.”

— Robert Cormier

There are those without decency who must be fought without hesitation, without pity.

— Henri

I heard an Angel singing; When the day was springing, Mercy, Pity, Peace; Is the world's release.

— William Blake

A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Self Pity is the most miserable party to go to, because, in case you haven't noticed, you're the only one who is…

— Joyce Meyer

Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen