“Pity? [If] you don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair, stay in your house!” — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
“It was I, no less solitary than he but having made the lesser use of the morning, who was to be pitied.” — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only because they are alive. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
“She understood that Simon was a disappointed man if he needed, at this age, to tell her he had pitied her for… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
I pitied him in his blindness But can I boast, "I see?" Perhaps there walks a spirit Close by, who pities me — Harry Kemp Copy Share Image
And even as he stabbed me through and through I pitied him for his small strategy. — Norman Cameron Copy Share Image
Seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I almost threw up the first time I set foot inside the University of California, San Francisco's Comprehensive Care Center and joined… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
“They died comfortably in their little bed of understanding, to become useful citizens of the world. I pitied them, and in short… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“So he dreams himself the life he cannot have?” “Exactly. But we, who can do anything, we refuse to live our dreams… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied! [It., Se a… — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
“Experience has taught me, in fact, that no man should be pitied because, every day in his life, he faces a hard,… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“It is a lovely night, and they are much to be pitied who have not been taught to feel in some degree… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“He will pity us who pitied everyone ... And He will say, 'I receive them, my wise and reasonable ones, forasmuch as… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Scholars who have to spend their time among ignoramuses, or, even worse, are under their control, are to be pitied. Knowledge, being… — Franz Rosenthal Copy Share Image
“You are to be pitied more than I, perhaps. I soar above all your innumerable miseries, partaking of the nature of the… — Herculine Barbin Copy Share Image
Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn't mind being pitied. If you love me, pity me. The… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
... somehow I couldn't stop. I had turned into someone that I would have pitied in another life; someone who searched for… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
He that can please nobody is not so much to be pitied as he that nobody can please. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“I’d never realized, not until the last year or two of my life, how shaming it is to be pitied. The” — Paula Hawkins Copy Share Image
“The desire to be pitied or to be admired often forms the greater part of our confidence.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She did not want to be a consolation prize. Be pitied or a distraction.” — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
The only thing worse than having no friends is being pitied for having no friends. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
People have always pitied spinsters. We have been derided, as if we had missed out on life. — Patricia Routledge Copy Share Image