Pity Quotes · Page 11

Pity those who cannot say: Thy will be done not mine, today.

— Elaine A. Cannon

All pity choked with custom of fell deeds.

— William Shakespeare

Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears.

— Euripides

Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Charity isn't about pity, it is about love.

— Mother Teresa

I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion.

— Randy Pausch

It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.

— Ava Gardner

“Happiness is often only a pity for one's own misfortune.”

— Albert Camus

What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws!

— Henry David Thoreau

Pity you can't attach an extra arm to your [broom], Malfoy. Then it could catch the Snitch for you.

— Anonymous

If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the…

— Anonymous

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

— Manly Hall

“we do sometimes pity creatures that have none of the feeling either for themselves or others.”

— Emily Brontë

Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.

— John Green

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the…

— Wilfred Owen

... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!

— Charles Dickens

I'm either a mutant or a cripple, and I refuse to be a cripple. People pity cripples, but they're afraid of mutants…

— Dean Koontz

It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There…

— Marat Safin

If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state…

— Samuel Johnson

I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity…

— Siegbert Tarrasch

O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the…

— Edward Young

Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn't the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn't…

— Chris Cleave

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread.

— Michael Pollan

So a Holocaust-denying, virulently anti-Semitic, aspiring genocidist, on the verge of acquiring weapons of the apocalypse, believes that the end is not…

— Charles Krauthammer

My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a…

— Anonymous

“I am glad you are no relation of mine. I will never call you aunt again as long as I live. I…

— Charlotte Bronte

“But, imbued from her childhood with a brooding sense of wrong, and an inveterate hatred of a class, opportunity had developed her…

— Charles Dickens

“I don't find it funny, I just think self-pity's probably not the answer.' ‘It’s not self-pity, it’s the facts.’ ‘My life is…

— David Nicholls

From whence comes it that a cripple in body does not irritate us, and that a crippled mind enrages us? It is…

— Blaise Pascal

But there are times when a tree can no longer withstand the pain inflicted on it, and the wind will take pity…

— Julius Lester

Unless a man has pity he is not truly a man. If a man has not wept at the worlds pain he…

— William Saroyan

A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Pity is just another form of abuse.

— Michael J. Fox

“Self pity is the glue that binds you to your past...”

— John Aldridge

The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.

— Willa Cather

Pity and friendship seek different habitations.

— Helen Hunt

“Attention received after pleading is called pity.”

— Nitya Prakash

Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.

— Terry Goodkind