Pity Quotes
1088 Pity quotes by 756 unique authors
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Ultimately the case for shunning animal flesh does not rest on what the Buddha allegedly said or didn't say. What is does rest on is…
— Philip Kapleau
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Many people have said to me, "What a pity you had such a big family to raise." "Think of the novels and the short stories…
— Unknown Author
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When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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In the eyes of mercy, no one should have hateful thoughts. Feel pity for the man who is even more at fault. The area and…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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Love does nothing but make you weak! It turns you into an object of pity and derision-a mewling pathetic creature no more fit to live…
— Teresa Medeiros
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The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.
— John Steinbeck
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I pity the Hindu who does not see the beauty in Jesus Christ's character. I pity the Christian who does not reverence the Hindu Christ.
— Swami Vivekananda
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It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He…
— Rebecca West
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... we have been warned by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself ... There…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.
— Henry David Thoreau
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We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
— William Cowper
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Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?
— William Shakespeare
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I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it…
— Honore de Balzac
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The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance,…
— Albert Camus
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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy,…
— Oscar Wilde
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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
— Oscar Wilde
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I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the shedding of precious German…
— Adolf Hitler
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But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats - more's the pity.
— Louisa May Alcott
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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not…
— Mencius
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Have charity towards all beings. Pity those who are in distress. Love all creatures. Do not be jealous of anyone. Look not to the faults…
— Swami Vivekananda
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