Pitiful Quotes

126 quotes by 117 authors

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. — Maya Angelou
Believers must persevere in prayer that they may see clearly their own pitiful state and understand the indwelling, working, and demands of the Holy Spirit. — Watchman Nee
When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites-to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance-there are no mistakes for which… — Carlos Castaneda
Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where pure thought can… — Bertrand Russell
Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance. — Don Meyer
Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have no time for the pitiful. — Sean O Faolain
That foolishness is what people call pride. That pride that you'd die to protect... why can't I have it? Did you pity me? Up until… — Jo Yoon-hee
If, when the chips are down, the worlds most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of… — Richard M. Nixon
You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into the dustbin of… — Leon Trotsky
Dirty Love wasn't written and directed, it was committed. Here is a film so pitiful, it doesn't rise to the level of badness. It is… — Roger Ebert
I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable… — John Derbyshire
It was both odd and unjust, a real example of pitiful arbitrariness of existance, that you were born into a particular time & held prisoner… — Daniel Kehlmann
Chose? If you believe that I chose any part of the pitiful shadow of a life you see before you, you are very much mistaken.… — Joe Abercrombie
And lips say God be pitiful, who never said, God be praised. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it… — Kurt Vonnegut
The cow is an exceptionally loving and gentle creature. She cries for days when her calf is taken from her. It is a pitiful sound,… — Helen Weston
Did you see Bush on TV, trying to debate? Jesus, he talked like a donkey with no brains at all...It was pitiful...I almost felt sorry… — Hunter S. Thompson
Consciousness is a pitiful hostage of its flesh-envelope, whose surges, circuits, and secret murmurings it cannot stay or speed. This is the chthonian drama that… — Camille Paglia
There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God. — Paul Washer

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