Pity Quotes
1088 Pity quotes by 756 unique authors
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We are so not breaking out the violins and pity partying.
— Gena Showalter
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One day as Father and I were returning from our walk we found the Grote Markt cordoned off by a double ring of police and…
— Corrie Ten Boom
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I keep remembering — I keep remembering. My heart has no pity on me.
— Henri Barbusse
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The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.
— Seneca the Younger
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So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and…
— Samuel Johnson
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I don't ask for your pity, but just your understanding - no, not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and…
— Tennessee Williams
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The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy.
— Robert Jordan
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The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and…
— Mark Twain
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I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow…
— Mitch Albom
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The state of your heart dictates whether you harbor a grudge or give grace, seek self-pity or seek Christ, drink human misery or taste God's…
— Max Lucado
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The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the…
— Mark Twain
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I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I have never stooped…
— Mark Twain
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As with all great teachers, his curriculum was an insignificant part of what he communicated. From him you didn't learn a subject, but a life...Tolerance…
— William Alexander Percy
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Pity melts the mind to love.
— John Dryden
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If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love.…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Where I say that He abideth sorrowfully and moaning, it meaneth all the true feeling that we have in our self, in contrition and compassion,…
— Julian of Norwich
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Many Christians still at bottom look upon God as one of the most selfish, self-absorbed Beings in the universe, far more selfish than they could…
— Hannah Whitall Smith
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There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave. No place in…
— Mark Twain
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Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.
— Anatole France
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Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you didn't.
— Jim Rohn
Who Wrote These Pity Quotes
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