And lips say God be pitiful, who never said, God be praised. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Tears are useless things; tiny droplets of salt infused water, insignificant and pitiful.” — Pippa DaCosta Copy Share Image
“It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.” — Zora Neale Hurston 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
PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself. — Ambrose Bierce 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
The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding. — Gene Tunney Copy Share Image
But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
Did you see Bush on TV, trying to debate? Jesus, he talked like a donkey with no brains at all...It was pitiful...I… — Hunter S. Thompson 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
“When all things lasted so short a time and nothing mattered very much, it seemed pitiful that men, attaching an absurd importance… — W. Somerset Maugham 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
People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing… — Napoleon Bonaparte 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
Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and… — Heinrich Heine 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
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
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
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
For what we don't realize today is just what the typical self of every previous stage failed likewise to comprehend: this is… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Yet this perhaps is what love does, or the memory of it; it sucks the life from the living, glorying body and… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won’t… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Every man who is not for us in this prolonged struggle for liberty is responsible for the present degradation of the mothers… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I am truly amazed that after all this time, religious groups still need to attack entertainment and use these tragedies as a… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
What children don't understand, and can't understand until they grow up some, is how much the whole fabric and process of human… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Tax time approaches, and Americans are as always paying H & R Block billions to help them save some of their wealth… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
