Pity Quotes · Page 5

I pity the FOOL...

— Anonymous

I don't want people's pity.

— Kelsey Plum

“Beware of pity.”

— Stefan Zweig

Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.

— Graham Greene

Contempt mates well with pity.

— Gloria Naylor

I pity those who have no taste for reading.

— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“Non ignora mali, miseris succurrere disco.”

— Virgil

Pity is like eating mustard without beef.

— Augustus Hare

too great pity is the greatest cruelty.

— St. Catherine of Siena

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

— Joseph Addison

“I pity you. You've crawled up your own asshole and died.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

— Charlotte Bronte

What poison is to food, self-pity is to life.

— Oliver C. Wilson

Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women…

— Marilynne Robinson

Pity is the feeling of well-intentioned people who are unable to act.

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

With 'Pity Party,' it's the first time seeing my vision come to life in front of my face. I'm super happy about…

— Melanie Martinez

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

— Mark Twain

But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity). [Fr., Mais un pripon d'enfant (cet age est sans pitie).

— Jean de La Fontaine

I missed a whole cycle of childhood, but I've never used it as a device for self-pity.

— James A. Michener

The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.

— Orville Dewey

Two days ago we waded through the mud out to this grave beneath the pines at the foot of the hill to…

— Eugene O'Neill

It sometimes seemed to him that for love to work, it had to be fair, that he should tell only half the…

— Tao Lin

It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact,…

— Anonymous

A warrior knows that he is only a man. His only regret is that his life is so short that he can't…

— Carlos Castaneda

One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.

— V. S. Pritchett

Why do we cling to bigotry? Because bigotry, plainly, is convenient. It is a near-effortless way to both elevate one's stature and…

— John Ridley

Pictures... are also opinions... [they] set down what the camera operator sees and he sees what he wants to see and what…

— John Steinbeck

“she did at least feel pity for me, pity for a lost soul. And if once a girl’s heart is moved to…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of…

— William Shakespeare

He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“All my life I'd been a believing Christian. ... But that instant in the ER--the instant Annette [his wife] died--I seemed to…

— Bill Bass

To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the…

— Samuel Johnson

Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of…

— Ellen Glasgow

I once lay in a white hospital for the dying and the dying self, where some god pissed a rain of reason…

— Charles Bukowski

It is said that peace is the basic tenet of all religion. Yet it is in the name of religion that there…

— Taslima Nasrin

You have let your fear of magic turn to hate. I pity you.

— Cerdan

“Rule Number Two, Monsignor. Do not show pity.”

— Gretchen McNeil

If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.

— George Bernard Shaw