Pity Quotes · Page 28

I pity my brother Ferdinand, knowing by my own feelings how sad a thing it is to live apart from one's family.

— Marie Antoinette

“(out of pity or out of fear of spilt coffee, he couldn’t say.) Then,”

— Michael Finocchiaro

You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not only must a warrior be strong with his bow, but he must have a heart full of pity for all living…

— Eiji Yoshikawa

Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead.

— William Collins

The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our…

— Dean Koontz

The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don't bring presents.

— Zig Ziglar

I can do without that pity-party crap. I would rather bring back the Beatles style of music.

— Steve Harwell

If you were not full of self-pity you would soon observe that we ourselves are to blame for all this evil, because…

— Tito Colliander

To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads,…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Remorseless time! fierce spirit of the glass and scythe,--what power can stay him in his silent course, or melt his iron heart…

— George D. Prentice

“Pity . . . is more properly bestowed in cases of involuntary suffering than of crime and offences committed voluntarily and with malice aforethought.”

— Antiphon

I will teach you to love death. I will empty you of grief and guilt and self-pity and fill you up with…

— Rick Yancey

The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the…

— Richard Dawkins

Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure; Pity…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Pity thwarts the whole law of evolution, which is the law of natural selection. It preserves whatever is ripe for destruction;”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I think that sexuality is only attractive when it’s natural and spontaneous. This is where a lot of them miss the boat.…

— Marilyn

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

— William Blake

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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Robert Lowell

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

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

— George Carlin

Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money…

— Cheryl Strayed

I'm a Latina from Miami. I pity you if you think you're going out-shout me.

— Ana Navarro

I was a stranger in the city. Out of town were the people I knew. I had that feeling of self-pity.

— Beegie Adair

From his proceedings in Congress, he appears demented, and his actings and doings inspire my pity more than anger.

— Andrew Jackson

“Walk with me for a while, my friend—you in my shoes, I in yours—and then let us talk.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Pity does not get you aid. Admiration at your refusal to give in does.

— Suzanne Collins

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

— Isaac Watts

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“What condition of man most deserves pity?" - Franklin offered: "A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how…

— Benjamin Franklin

It is a pity that you students aren't fully aware of the luxury and abundance in which you live.

— Hermann Hesse

Many are those who pity others while being blind to their own misfortunes.

— Shinjo Ito

the heart that is truly virtuous is ever inclined to pity and forgive the errors of its fellow-creatures.

— Susanna Rowson

With such a pity men preserve alive Pheasants and quails, when they are no fat enough to be eaten.

— John Webster

I pity people who do not care for Society. They are poorer for the oblation they do not make.

— Elizabeth Bowen

It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own…

— Marcel Proust

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me,and drench me in loneliness.

— Amy Lowell

I don't really get scared. Want to know what else i don't feel?" PITY

— Sarah Rees Brennan