Pitiable Quotes

31 quotes by 29 authors

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable. — Anthony Trollope
The Germans in basements were pitiable, surely, but at least they had a chance. That basement was not a washroom. They were not sent there… — Markus Zusak
A shadowless man is a monster, a devil, a thing of evil. A man without a shadow is soulless. A shadow without a man is… — Jane Yolen
Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable — Homer
Dying for love might be pitiable, but it wasn't much different, finally, from any other kind of dying. — Richard Yates
And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a… — Emile Zola
There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies… — Arthur Schopenhauer
I work seven days a week, from 9 in the morning till 8 at night. I have the titles of the next eight novels I… — Orhan Pamuk
Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved. — Cornelius Nepos

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