Pity Quotes · Page 56

I feel pretty and witty and gay. And I pity any girl who isn't me today.

— Marni Nixon

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.

— Anne Carson

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the…

— G. H. Hardy

It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of…

— Peter Matthiessen

Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: By killing, man…

— Leo Tolstoy

He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.

— Anais Nin

I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Don't worry,' my girl said, 'I'll teach you to outwit pity.”

— Danielle Bennett

“In some countries, the strictly Progressive man reveals himself to be just as much as if not more prejudiced than the typical…

— Criss Jami

There are two sorts of pity: one is a balm and the other a poison; the first is realized by our friends,…

— Charles Sumner

Sorry means you feel the pulse of other people's pain as well as your own, and saying it means you take a…

— Craig Silvey

Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.

— Rick Yancey

Beauty plus pity-that is the closest we can get to a definition of art. Where there is beauty there is pity for…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity.

— Dean Koontz

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

— Olin Miller

Piscary killed people, but he didn’t have the concept of pity or remorse. It would be like telling a shark he was…

— Kim Harrison

But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of…

— William Shakespeare

If every man's internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?

— Pietro Metastasio

Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth.…

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Samuel Johnson

Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated.

— Albert Camus

I see filmmaking as a business and pity anyone who regards it as an art form.

— Herschell Gordon Lewis

I will look, your Honor, and endeavor to find a precedent, if you require it; though it would seem to be a…

— Rufus Choate

Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer?…

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski