Pity Quotes · Page 30

Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.

— Bolesław Prus

“I was wallowing in a small, but beautifully decorated pity party, complete with imaginary streamers…”

— Alicia Buck

You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance," Domingo said.

— William Goldman

“to him that is pitiless the deeds of pity are ever strange and beyond comprehension.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Have pity on them all, for it is we who are the real monsters.”

— Bernard Heuvelmans

Avoid self-pity, or the pity and sympathy of others. Never allow others to make you feel inferior.

— Anil Sinha

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

— Stanley Kubrick

It's a pity that racist issues come out. There are ways of criticising without getting into that.

— Joao Felix

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger…

— Sallust

I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It…

— Emily Bronte

The truth is that if we are consumed with finding ways to help others, there will be little room left in our…

— David S. Baxter

We pity or condemn the communist peoples of the world for being bound in the chains of doctrine. So are we. Our…

— Marya Mannes

The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes,…

— Rod Serling

Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The feeling it gave me was an odd combination of weightless self-pity and excitement. I understood my life was meaningless, and this…

— Matt de la Pena

Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if…

— Herman Melville

If we lived forever, if the dews of Adashino never vanished, if the crematory smoke on Toribeyama never faded, men would hardly…

— Yoshida Kenko

He [Aristotle] pointed out that people who had become initiates in the various mystery religions were not required to learn any facts…

— Karen Armstrong

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

— Bertrand Russell

I couldn't help but think, as I watched him, of the barrels of toxic fluids that had accrued behind Hal's bike shop…

— Alice Sebold

It seems to me, that if people only knew how hard it was for me to endure life, they would find it…

— Ivo Andric

Part of life is a quest to find that one essential person who will understand our story. But we choose wrongly so…

— Jonathan Carroll

... The truth of the matter is, that most English people don't know how to make tea anymore either, and most people…

— Douglas Adams

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

— Charles Spurgeon

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

— Philip Larkin

“Self pity, Orito reminds herself yet again, is a noose dangling from a rafter.”

— David Mitchell

“To him that is pitiless the deeds of pity are ever strange and beyond reckoning.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

— Margot Asquith

“Talent without money, coach, vision and mission is a piteous adventure.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I wished to be loved by another,' [Éowyn] answered. 'But I desire no man's pity.

— Anonymous

As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts.

— Shirley Chisholm

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Anne Carson

“It was a pity, he reflected, that the men of good will are so poorly armed, for at times it was a…

— Louis L'Amour

Self Pity takes away the power to get out of predicaments. Don't pity yourself. Empower yourself.

— Anonymous

“English : Don't pity if you don't help! Indonesia: Usah kasihan jika tak bantu!”

— Toba Beta

If I wanted pity, I got it because I'm illegitimate. And when I didn't want it I was mean and nasty.

— Ethel Waters

It's a pity people pick and choose what they learn from the Bible.

— Graham Greene

“Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.”

— Rob Liano