Pity Quotes

1088 Pity quotes by 756 unique authors

All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did. — Josephine Hart
It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have… — Kate Horsley
It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers. — Chauncey Depew
Boulez's only concern is with power. He lost the leadership of the avant-guard more than ten years ago to Stockhausen. Now others have moved in.… — Lukas Foss
What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it. — Margot Asquith
The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art had studied it… — Jennifer Haigh
Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride, and have no prospect of great conquests: the easy prey - and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either — Garrison Keillor
Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: By killing, man suppresses in himself,… — Leo Tolstoy
Thank God our time is now when wrong comes up to meet us everywhere never to leave us till we take, the greatest stride of… — Christopher Fry
For pity's sake, don't start meeting troubles halfway. — Teresa of Avila
O my soul, what are you doing? Are you not aware that God sees you always? You can never hide yourself from His sight. O… — St. Catherine of Siena
It's true he was a sinner. But don't pass so final a judgement. Have pity in your heart and don't forget that he may yet… — Josemaria Escriva
Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have… — Samuel Johnson
. . . a pity I never had children. But you're wrong. . . . I have . . . thousands of them . .… — Robert Donat
Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Love shouldn't make a beggar of one. I wouldn't want love if I had to beg for it, to barter or qualify it. And I… — Jacqueline Susann
Kindness does not require us to be blind to facts or to live in fancies, but it does require us to cherish a habit of… — Alexander MacLaren
The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The tenderness of Jesus is the love… — Alexander MacLaren
People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand why they find me so… — Ian Hamilton Finlay
Heaven preserve me from littleness and pleasantness and smoothness. Give me great glaring vices, and great glaring virtues, but preserve me from the neat little… — Violet Trefusis
Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity's sake be it… — Violet Trefusis
The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive. — William Cowper
There was a child went forth everyday, And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or dread, that object he… — Walt Whitman
It will be a great pity if any feeling of jealousy or egotism gain ground amongst you. — Swami Vivekananda

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