The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding. — Gene Tunney Copy Share Image
“Tears are useless things; tiny droplets of salt infused water, insignificant and pitiful.” — Pippa DaCosta Copy Share Image
PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
now I am capable of youth, but not capable of few years - that is the pitiful thing. — Helen Westley Copy Share Image
Ignorance is pitiful! If you are ignorant and stupid, you are sick - white, black, green, I don't care. — Willie Wells Copy Share Image
There is nothing more pitiful than a ready and willing mind but an incapable body. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have no time for the pitiful. — Sean O Faolain Copy Share Image
Since the global economic crisis began, the change in global attitudes is clear to see - and I think it is pitiful.… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“She perceived vaguely the pitiful corruption of the adult world; how cruel and frail it was, like a worn piece of burlap,… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
If, when the chips are down, the worlds most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts like a pitiful, helpless giant,… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Among these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
“I'm struck by how pitiful and pointless this little container called me is, what a lame, shabby being I am. I feel… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The union of a sect within itself is a pitiful charity; it's no concord of Christians, but a conspiracy against Christ; and… — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight, and man becomes near-sighted, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
So when the wolf pounces on your lamb, just ignore the pitiful bleating and remind yourself that this is a democracy, where… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I've always known that the quality of love was the mind, even though the body sometimes refuses this knowledge. The body lives… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Life is pitiful, death so familiar, suffering and pain so common, yet I would not be anywhere else. Do not wish me… — Gladys Aylward Copy Share Image
I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I’m not a good faster. My friends have visions of God, I have visions of hamburgers. The only time I watch the… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
I have always disliked being a man. The whole idea of manhood in America is pitiful, in my opinion. This version of… — Paul Theroux 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
“It's pitiful to have a life in which junk food is awarded the same high status as sex.” — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
I lay my head on the railroad track, waitin' on the Double E. But the train don't run by here no more,… — Warren Zevon Copy Share Image
As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful. — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted. — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“You can choose to be pitiful or you can choose to be powerful, but you cannot at the same time, be both.” — Mishi McCoy Copy Share Image
Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are. — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
