Pity Quotes · Page 32

“Oh, that is the surprise. It's so lovely, I pity you because you don't know it…”

— Louisa May Alcott

“Crying and hoping that someone will feel pity, is folly. Rise and do something to escape your evil predicament”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“Then he began to pity the great fish that he had hooked. He is wonderful and strange and who knows how old…

— Ernest Hemingway

A mourner is, perforce, a person with a story. The pity is, how very rarely it gets told.

— Christian McEwen

Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— William Blake

But the day I can't shrug off a twinge of self-pity, is the day I'm washed up for keeps.

— Jonathan Lethem

Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

They walked back into the world together, wearing the gift that had been given them: just life. Pity was not love, Barbie…

— Stephen King

Every generation gets a chance to change the world Pity the nation that won't listen to your boys and girls Cos the…

— Alvin Toffler

By choice they made themselves immune To pity and whatever moans in man Before the last sea and the hapless stars; Whatever…

— Anonymous

“When someone calls you a 'nigger', then you feel sorry for him... You have to pity him because his mind has such…

— Adam Makos

“I pity him who refuses to leave the minatory of his refutable Judgments and still insisting on producing his light to lit…

— Annie Ali

Rapacity plus taste is a formidable combination, since it so often passes for intelligence. One pities the artist in a world of…

— Gilbert Sorrentino

...long before the child learns to talk properly-and long before it learns to think philosophically-the world will have become a habit. A…

— Jostein Gaarder

“Those who hate, are merely wallowing in self pity. Those who lie about someone to destroy his or her spirit, are simply…

— Emma Paul

I wonder why love is so often equated with joy when it is everything else as well. Devastation, balm, obsession, granting and…

— Florida Scott-Maxwell

Poor Mr. Pickwick! ... If he played a wrong card, Miss Bolo looked a small armoury of daggers; if he stopped to…

— Charles Dickens

I was never great, but I was a good [basketball] player, and I could play seriously. Now I'm like one of these…

— Barack Obama

Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity…

— Jane Austen

And on the last day, the bad days become so difficult to recall, because one way or another, she had made a…

— John Green

“And if once a girl’s heart is moved to pity, it’s more dangerous than anything. She is bound to want to ‘save…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Why should we believe in God? — We hate Christianity and Christians. Even the best of them must be regarded as our…

— Gerald Burton Winrod

In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and…

— John Updike

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

— Stephen Levine

It changed my whole outlook. I lost a decade to self-pity, and the next thing I knew I was turning 40.

— Chris Hardwick

Try to avoid complaints. Self-pity even when legitimate never fails to undermine your strength.

— Mariane Pearl

However, when we are depressed, being reminded of other people's suffering only serves to increase our self-hatred.

— Dorothy Rowe

We see how much a man has, and therefore we envy him; did we see how little he enjoys, we should rather…

— Jeremiah Seed

Gratitude is a dialysis of sorts... it flushes the self-pity out of our systems.

— Max Lucado

I don't need pity. I want to be looked at like a musician, because I am one. I happen to be deaf.

— Mandy Harvey

There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think…

— Phyllis Bottome

Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.

— Carrie Fisher

I've been through so much in my life. I really don't like the feeling sorry for me, the pity.

— Westside Gunn

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

— Oscar Wilde

The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“No self-respecting gastronome was going to look back on the 1950s with anything except pity. •”

— Laura Shapiro

Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred.

— Anatole France

Just listen to your instincts. Don't talk to someone or start a relationship out of pity.

— Chris Bosh