Pity Quotes

1088 Pity quotes by 756 unique authors

Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple… — Napoleon Hill
There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language.… — Toni Morrison
As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and… — Ernst Toller
What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. — Frederick Douglass
It is important not to allow ourselves to be put off by the magnitude of others' suffering. The misery of millions is not a cause… — Dalai Lama
If every man's internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now? — Pietro Metastasio
Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink. — Elisabeth Elliot
It's time to blow out the candles on the pity party cake. — Louie Giglio
Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is. — Mignon McLaughlin
Of one thing I am sure. Complaining is self-perpetuating and counterproductive. Whenever I express my complaints in the hope of evoking pity and receiving the… — Henri Nouwen
If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into… — Friedrich Nietzsche
If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If I must pity,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of… — Berkeley Breathed
You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth. — E. M. Forster
There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage. — George Bernard Shaw
What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms? — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Pity, unlike hate, can be boxed and put away. — Jessie Burton
To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised… — Robert Louis Stevenson
It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who… — Baruch Spinoza
Self-pity - it's the only pity that counts. — Oscar Levant
Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons. — Robert Breault
It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had… — William Ernest Henley

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