Pity Quotes · Page 31

“I will do my best: it is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.”

— Charlotte Brontë

I pitied him in his blindness But can I boast, "I see?" Perhaps there walks a spirit Close by, who pities me

— Harry Kemp

Today is like yesterday and tomorrow will be the same as today. God, help us! Take pity of us!

— Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia

Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

— Joan Halifax

How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!

— Ann Radcliffe

Motherhood is a wonderful thing - what a pity to waste it on children.

— Judith Pugh

“The funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart, and a hard heart is a weak heart.”

— Criss Jami

It's hard to play a continuing character like Loomis for nearly 11 years and simply wash your hands of him. It seems…

— Donald Pleasence

Self-pity takes away the strength needed to escape the predicaments you're in, don't pity yourself but start to empowering yourself daily and…

— Kemmy Nola

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who…

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I'm not trying to look for pity or sympathy. I was just surprised that so many people in the world of entertainment…

— Moby

Self-pity is an ignoble emotion, but we all feel it, and the orthodox critical line that it represents some kind of artistic…

— Nick Hornby

“she did at least feel pity for me, pity for a lost soul. And if once a girl’s heart is moved to…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Pictures... are also opinions... [they] set down what the camera operator sees and he sees what he wants to see and what…

— John Steinbeck

If the people who hurt us have anger or desperation within them then they suffer. When you see that someone suffers, you…

— Nhat Hanh

Flaubert was right when he said that our use of language is like a cracked kettle on which we bang out tunes…

— Christopher Hitchens

The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls…

— Albert Camus

I think sometimes that it is almost a pity to enjoy Italy as much as I do, because the acuteness of my…

— Edith Wharton

This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Pity, Jane, from some people is a noxious and insulting sort of tribute, which one is justified in hurling back in the…

— Charlotte Brontë

I remember one time I tried to pity this fool. He told me his name was Jeff. He was married. He pulled…

— Mr. T

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

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

— Gerald Burton Winrod

He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.

— Vincent Van Gogh

It's a pity that there's such a negative connotation about paying for sex.

— Annie Sprinkle

You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.

— Bernard Malamud

It's a pity we don't whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading.

— Halldór Laxness

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

— Margot Asquith

A flood of emotions rushes into me. Pain and anger. Sadness and pity. But most surprising of all, hope.

— Jay Asher

Watch waterfalls of pity roar, you feel to moan but unlike before, you discover that you'd just be one more person crying.

— Bob Dylan

It will be a great pity if any feeling of jealousy or egotism gain ground amongst you.

— Swami Vivekananda

He who laughs at himself shall never run out of things to laugh at.

— Anonymous

Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me.

— Charlaine Harris

“Choosing to Let Go crashes the pity party thrown by all the “What ifs” and “If onlys.”

— Justin Young

“People are always doing things for my sake and strangely enough, I'm the one who suffers for it.”

— Robert Masello

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

— Aleksandar Hemon

I keep remembering — I keep remembering. My heart has no pity on me.

— Henri Barbusse

It would be a pity to have to vanish from the face of this earth with the music still playing inside you.

— Prakah Iyer

There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.

— Anonymous