Pity Quotes · Page 25

It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women…

— Marilynne Robinson

Pity is the feeling of well-intentioned people who are unable to act.

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity). [Fr., Mais un pripon d'enfant (cet age est sans pitie).

— Jean de La Fontaine

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

— Mark Twain

The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.

— Orville Dewey

Pity me or everyone pity the one who isn't worth looking back too

— Tony Salameh

I missed a whole cycle of childhood, but I've never used it as a device for self-pity.

— James A. Michener

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives…

— F. H. Bradley

Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked…

— Cheryl Strayed

Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because…

— Paulo Coelho

Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks…

— H. Beam Piper

“Miss Aubrey, come and have pity on us. We are reading novels and feel our manliness diminishing by the moment. Come restore…

— Julie Klassen

In the eyes of mercy, no one should have hateful thoughts. Feel pity for the man who is even more at fault.…

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet…

— Pope Pius XI

It is a pity that the words "spiritual life" were ever invented, for they have caused so much confusion. For, in truth,…

— Robert Powell

There was a child went forth everyday, And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or dread,…

— Walt Whitman

“A valley full of genuine suffering, and of joys that often turn out to be false, and so incredibly tumultuous that it…

— Honoré de Balzac

A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its…

— Henry Fielding

“Hayden, as the first girl to take pity on my brother, let me offer my condolences. Suggestion? You might want to kick…

— Nicole Williams

I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo…

— John Barth

To the last day of your life, be positive; try to be cheerful. Even at the very end, don't think, "I am…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

The action of Pity leaps quicker than light from the highest place to the lowest to bring healing and joy, whatever the…

— C. S. Lewis

Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and…

— Kevin Malarkey

“A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery.

— Homer

People who pity themselves think, 'Why would I try to do anything? I'll just fail.'

— Joyce Meyer

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

— Dave Matthews

“People feeling pity for me is as offensive as them feeling inspired by me.”

— Christy Leigh Stewart

There is a kind of misguided pity that deals gently with false teachers at the expense of their victims.

— Max Anders

Feeling sad or lonely isn't a bad thing. But those emotions increase the risk that you'll cross the line into self-pity.

— Amy Morin

I understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don't want pity or random advice.

— Teri Garr

Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.

— Joseph Addison

“His pity for them had been overwhelming; but pity was not action.”

— Shusaku Endo

“I wept in self-pity, and because I knew you could never go back. You chose your path, and that was it.”

— Juliet Marillier

We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“dont stay feeling sorry for me ive been in so many pieces enough times to know how to put myself together again…

— Renaada Williams

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

— Dorothy Rowe

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

— Mariane Pearl

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

— Chris Hardwick