Pity is a corroding thing.

It's a pity that there's such a negative connotation about paying for sex.

— Annie Sprinkle

But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but,…

— Dean Koontz

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

— Roger Ascham

It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“How dare I, Mrs Reed? How dare I? Because it is the truth. You think I have no feelings, and that I can do…

— Charlotte Brontë

Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.

— Graham Greene

Whoever will not love his enemies cannot know the Lord and the sweetness of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit teaches us to love…

— Silouan the Athonite

Pity the planet, all joy gone from this sweet volcanic cone; peace to our children when they fall in small war on the heel…

— Robert Lowell

Please dont say you dont miss him. Just to pity me.

— William Yap

It's really a pity that there are observers who view political events like comic strips. There has to be a Zorro, there has to…

— Thomas Sankara

Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is…

— E. M. Forster

The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement…

— Anonymous

It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you…

— Mark Twain

Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts…

— Abby May Alcott

“Self-pity is the worst disability a person can have, Callie. It's crippling.”

— Shelley Terrell