Pity Quotes · Page 17

I remember thinking, without pride of self-pity, that I was not rich or poor, that I wasn't good or bad. But that…

— Alejandro Zambra

There is a kind of misguided pity that deals gently with false teachers at the expense of their victims.

— Max Anders

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

— Stanley Kubrick

People in distress never think that you feel enough.

— Samuel Johnson

At the table of a gentleman living in the Chausee d'Antin was served up an Arles sausage of enormous size. "Will you…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it…

— Anonymous

How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight,…

— Blaise Pascal

When I see a cow, it is not an animal to eat, it is a poem of pity for me and I…

— Mahatma Gandhi

What's interesting to me is that people engage survivors from a place of pity all the time - a place of sympathy.

— Tarana Burke

I'm no use to anybody,' I say. 'I'm a cérébrale, can't you see that?' Thinking how funny a book would be, called…

— Jean Rhys

[Her] love and tenderness ... gave me the faith in love that enabled me to face my dead at last and write…

— Anonymous

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms…

— Oscar Wilde

Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be…

— Anthony Trollope

In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. It may be pure tragedy, if it is high…

— Raymond Chandler

“Show pity I beg you... We have today been struck down by fortune But tomorrow it may be your own turn to…

— Guiseppe Verdi

Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.

— Aidan Chambers

“She expected no judgement and wanted no pity.”

— Colum McCann

I never wanted anyone's pity.

— Jake Weber

I do pity unlearned gentlemen on a rainy day.

— 2nd Viscount Falkland Lucius Cary

I had a lot of pity for myself. But I could concentrate more on my studies as a result.

— Phan Thi Kim Phuc

“And then I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up…

— Charles Dickens

The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art…

— Jennifer Haigh

Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison.

— John Frederick Boyes

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

— Siegbert Tarrasch

WL’s [White Liberals] think all the world’s problems can be fixed without any cost to themselves. We don’t believe that. There’s a…

— Paul Farmer