Pity Quotes · Page 15

You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.

— Og Mandino

Was it for crimes that I had done He groaned upon the tree? Amazing pity! Grace unknown! And love beyond degree!

— Isaac Watts

How different is the ready hand, tearful eye, and soothing voice, from the ostentatious appearance which is called pity.

— Jane Porter

Pity swells the tide of love.

— Edward Young

This have I known always: Love is no more than the wide blossom which the wind assails, than the great tide that…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Gather up your pity and turn it to ambition.

— Coolio

And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to…

— Deb Caletti

Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like…

— Vilayat Inayat Khan

Pity is treason.

— Maximilien Robespierre

Diligence means to be keen in matters of virtue and justice, but worldly people use diligence to solve their economic difficulties. Frugality…

— Zicheng Hong

I am not prone to weeping as our sex commonly are; the want of which vain dew perchance shall dry your pities;…

— William Shakespeare

It is Satan's work to fill men's hearts with doubt. He leads them to look upon God as a stern judge. He…

— Ellen G. White

No people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery, but when they deserv'd it. ...The truth is, all might be…

— Samuel Adams

When he tries to extend his power over objects, those objects gain control of him. He who is controlled by objects loses…

— Zhuangzi

If I were over full of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not take my…

— Mahatma Gandhi

It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.

— Walter de La Mare

The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

This isn’t happening to you, princess,” Sabine snapped before I could do more than shake my head. “This is happening to us.…

— Rachel Vincent

[On her mastectomy:] Pity is delicious. I was crazy about the pity I got. It was the best kind, too. I did…

— Betty Rollin

To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the…

— Samuel Johnson

There are a few things that'll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they've been used several times,…

— Bertolt Brecht

Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest.

— Francis Beaumont

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be…

— Lionel Blue

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

I've been labelled many times - a criminal, an anarchist, a rebel, sometimes human garbage, but never a philosopher, which is a…

— Steve Toltz