Pity Quotes · Page 26

Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you're hurting.

— Paul Monette

A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quicky than reason or…

— Moss Hart

Things might have been different if she hadn't been able to drift; if she'd had to concentrate on her next meal, instead…

— Margaret Atwood

Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.

— Terry Goodkind

All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Suffering also has its worth. Through sorrow, pride is driven out And pity felt for those who wander in samsara; Evil is…

— Shantideva

Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine.…

— Christopher Hitchens

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.

— Dave Matthews

Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, distinctly heard the voice of Jesus telling him to kill women, and he was locked up for…

— Richard Dawkins

Speech is a powerful master and achieves the most divine feats with the smallest and least evident body. It can stop fear,…

— Gorgias

I pity the shrimp that matches wits with you Jeeves

— Anonymous

It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in…

— Leo Tolstoy

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

— Elizabeth Bowen

What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint.

— Marc Chagall

Pity and forbearance should characterize all acts of justice.

— Benjamin Franklin

Our original title, you know, was `The Man in Lincoln`s Nose`. Couldn`t use it, though. They also wouldn`t let us shoot people…

— Alfred Hitchcock

Growing up in a place that has winter, you learn to avoid self-pity. Winter is not a personal experience, everybody else is…

— Garrison Keillor

When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as…

— Marquis de Sade

College athletics are so entrenched and enjoyed by so many people that they will never be discontinued or substantially changed. I know…

— Susan Orlean

God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.

— Albert Camus

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a…

— Rebecca West

Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'some one,' like everybody else. But…

— Gaston Leroux

Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me.

— Charlaine Harris