Pity Quotes · Page 21

Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.

— Moss Hart

Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.

— Samuel Richardson

If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Tarana Burke

It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's…

— William Saroyan

What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!

— Emile M. Cioran

“Self pity is the sworn enemy of your ambition. It is the number one killer of your aspirations and goals. Give it…

— Jason Versey

I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were…

— Stephen Hawking

If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel…

— Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity's…

— Violet Trefusis

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

When you have lived longer in this world and outlived the enthusiastic and pleasing illusions of youth, you will find your love…

— Joseph Henry Shorthouse

“But, see, that kind of thinking only led to self-pity and that might be the quality I hated most in people. That…

— Callie Harper

Truth is the only good and the purest pity. ... Men lie for profit or for pity. All lies turn to poison,…

— Storm Jameson

One can imagine a time when men who still inhabit organic bodies are regarded with pity by those who have passed on…

— Arthur C. Clarke

One thing was absolutely certain—it was a given for Kazuo. Although he might not have particularlyrealized it, or more appropriately, perhaps because…

— Koushun Takami

To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy…

— William Blake

[H]ow do I pity those who (assuming the name of friends) surround themselves with maxims importing the wisdom of doubt and suspicion,…

— Sarah Fielding

I am a personal optimist but a skeptic about all else. What may sound to some like anger is really nothing more…

— George Carlin

Didn't you tie the mittens on her feet (Wednesday Evening's) extra special nice? Yes--she is an extra special nice pigeon. She cries…

— Carl Sandburg

“No weekends for the gods now. Wars flicker, earth licks its open sores, fresh breakage, fresh promotions, chance assassinations, no advance. Only…

— Robert Lowell

The man who is meek is not even sensitive about himself. He is not always watching himself and his own interests. He…

— Anonymous

It’s hard to feel hurt or frightened when you’re flooded with pity.

— Lindy West

“Sometimes, self-pity was so ingrained in people that nothing could persuade them to take joy out of living.”

— Mary Balogh

Ask a glass of water why it pities the rain. Ask the lunatic yard dog why it tolerates the leash.

— Terrance Hayes

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

— Walter de La Mare

“You'll do well, if you don't mire in self-pity. Self-pity only gets you more of the same. Don't waste time on it.”

— Robin Hobb

You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else.

— Josh Billings

The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.

— Tennessee Williams

Pity is sworn servant unto love: And this be sure, wherever it begin To make the way, it lets your master in.

— Willa Cather

You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity and the sour sound of whining.

— Og Mandino

It's always a pity to lose or draw at the end of the game; it's always painful.

— Henrikh Mkhitaryan

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

— Patty Duke

What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.

— Olin Miller

I drive an American car. It's a Chrysler. That's not an endorsement. It's more like a cry for pity.

— Michael Moore

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

— Samuel Johnson

Life ain't all beer and skittles, and more's the pity; but what's the odds, so long as you're happy?

— George du Maurier