Pity Quotes

1088 Pity quotes by 756 unique authors

In the beginning I tried to accommodate everything there that was somewhere between art and garbage and that somehow seemed important to me and a… — Gerhard Richter
Pity the poor infant. Born perfect into the world from imperfect parents. — Cynthia Heimel
Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your laughter can you… — Joni Mitchell
Watch waterfalls of pity roar, you feel to moan but unlike before, you discover that you'd just be one more person crying. — Bob Dylan
Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house! — Jerry Lewis
Human beings of all societies in all periods of history believe that their ideas on the nature of the real world are the most secure,… — Edward Robert Harrison
When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all inner strength seem… — Georges Bernanos
A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quicky than reason or logic, irony can… — Moss Hart
It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the… — Terry Eagleton
I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast,… — Karen Kingsbury
Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that,… — Vince Cable
I'm not going to sit here and say, 'Pity me; I came from modeling.' It's opened a lot of doors. People will take meetings because… — Brooklyn Decker
Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way. — Karen Armstrong
It's a pity that I can never really enjoy my movies because, after the mixing, your capacity as a spectator just disappears. I have to… — Pedro Almodovar
No it isn't very pretty, what a town without pity can do. — Gene Pitney
When you get down to the nitty gritty, isn't it a pity that in this big city not one little bitty man will admit that… — Elvis Presley
Gather up your pity and turn it to ambition. — Coolio
[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. Remarking on the complexity… — Alfonso X of Castile
Have pity on a dinosaur. — Hank Williams, Jr.
I must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to you, King of… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The house you live in will never fall down, if you pity the stranger who stands at your door. — Gordon Lightfoot
Papers should include more side remarks, open questions, and such. Very often, these are more interesting than the theorems actually proved. Alas, most people are… — Jean-Pierre Serre
You will surely smile with me when I say, 'Thank God one can still recognise self-pity as such and not give it any greater dignity… — James Fox
A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't feel the pain. Your belly is… — Erich Maria Remarque

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