Pity Quotes · Page 26

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

— Joyce Meyer

I had to work in one of the most beautiful ski resorts in the world for almost three weeks. Pity me.

— David Duchovny

So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less!

— Lord Byron

Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.

— Julia Cameron

pity runs its course. An hour comes when no hand but your own can build your future.

— Zelda Popkin

Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!

— Amos Bronson Alcott

I felt like I couldn't wallow in self-pity forever. I can't beat myself up forever.

— James Arthur

A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.

— Oscar Wilde

What a pity people don't take as much trouble with their own breeding as intelligent racehorse owners do. But then I suppose…

— Jeffrey Bernard

“Not enjoying what is happening right now is living in the past and being only half alive. This leads to self-pity, suffering,…

— Miguel Ruiz

Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist…

— Marquis de Sade

Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won't…

— Paulo Coelho

Everyone has their set of problems and I'm certainly not going to sensationalize mine or try to evoke pity or sympathy out…

— Chrissie Hynde

All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as…

— Josephine Hart

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

You do small movies because the script is good and because you believe in the director. You don't care about the money.…

— Stephen Rea

I've often fantasized about visiting the Bahamian beach where Columbus first stumbled ashore in 1492. Sadly, no one knows where that beach…

— Seth Shostak

“Poor little fellow! one only consolation have we; his friends mourn and weep, but he is at rest. The pang is over,…

— Anonymous

There are some women in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else. Love is scarcely…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as…

— Tom Robbins

You remind me of the Siberian hunting spider, which adopts a highly convincing limp in three of its eight legs in order…

— Bill Bailey

The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch…

— Marlene Dietrich

Ben Adaephon Delat," Pearl said plaintively, "see the last who comes. You send me to my death." "I know," Quick Ben whispered.…

— Steven Erikson

I don't think there's anything wrong with pity. Like if you saw a dog having just been hit by a car, you…

— Ottessa Moshfegh

This train of thought was heading straight for Pity City, and she wanted to get off.

— Lauren Kate

“Pity? [If] you don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair, stay in your house!”

— Jerry Lewis

I pity those who gave up on me because they gave up on someone who could never have given up on them

— Anonymous

Only fools pity survivors their scars and you should never kowtow to fools

— Jeaniene Frost

Compassion makes you feel sadness. Sympathy only makes you feel pity.

— Anonymous

Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons.

— Robert Breault

But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?

— Boris Pasternak

“It is strange how you shall hate a man, and yet pity him from the depths.”

— Richard Llewellyn

When your fear touches someones pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someones pain, it becomes compassion.

— Pacifiersucker

“What a pity? Mankind often neglect the knowledge that will save their soul.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn't do more.

— B. B. King

Be collected. No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart There's no harm done.

— William Shakespeare

“I love pity parties. I wish I'd brought the hats. What do you want to mope about first?”

— Richelle Mead

Pity you can't be present during my periodic fault-finding sessions with my image in the mirror!

— Wole Soyinka