Pity Quotes

1088 Pity quotes by 756 unique authors

Ah, children, pity level-crossing keepers, pity lock-keepers - pity lighthouse-keepers - pity all the keepers of this world (pity even school teachers), caught between their… — Graham Swift
Oh may He look on us with love and pity and then we shall be able to do anything He wishes us to do, no… — Catherine McAuley
Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery. — Homer
If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind;… — Samuel Johnson
Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity. — Marquis de Sade
Soft pity enters an iron gate. — William Shakespeare
Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing. — Josh Billings
If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel sorry for myself.… — Julie Nixon Eisenhower
Tomorrow, more's the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I. — A. E. Housman
It's a pity we can't play in two or three days as I like to play straight away after a bad game — Jose Mourinho
I think seriousness is a mask of self-importance and self-importance in turn is a mask for self-pity. So if you're really going to pursue a… — Deepak Chopra
Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning. — Neale Donald Walsch
It is a pity that the words "spiritual life" were ever invented, for they have caused so much confusion. For, in truth, there is only… — Robert Powell
It is in the book of man, not the book of god, that we must look for examples of heroism, love, pity, justice, truth, honor,… — M. M. Mangasarian
The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion concerning painting (which… — John Berger
When Eve upon the first of Men The apple press'd with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not Adamant! — Thomas Hood
The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need… — Friedrich Nietzsche
There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one day he suffocated… — Friedrich Nietzsche
You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live. — Og Mandino
You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity and the sour sound of whining. — Og Mandino
One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed… — Charles Horton Cooley
It is a pity that so many Americans today think of the Indian as a romantic or comic figure in American history without contemporary significance.… — Felix S. Cohen
The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and not… — Joseph Conrad
To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity,… — Samuel Johnson
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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