I have not slept for nights. I have not eaten for days. I…

For pity's sake, don't start meeting troubles halfway.

— Teresa of Avila

They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.

— Arthur Helps

“So I've come to the conclusion that it is thus my own fault when these people I have been talking about finally stop saying…

— Barbara Wright

For pity's sake, if you don't take a shine to a novel, there are loads more in the world; read something else. Continue suffering,…

— Lionel Shriver

Self pity is an excuse to do nothing. To appeal to sympathy for pity's sake is to seek affirmation of the choice to do…

— Anonymous

“Damn it, Lettie. Marry me. For pity's sake, marry me and put me out of my misery.”

— Juliet Landon

Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity's sake be…

— Violet Trefusis

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

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 is cruel. Pity destroys.

— Graham Greene

“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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

— Annie Sprinkle