Pity Quotes

1088 Pity quotes by 756 unique authors

Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing. — Eugene H. Peterson
Mercy, pity, and peace, Are the world's release. — William Blake
I pity the people who don't like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and don't get to… — Richard Denney
Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity. — Michael Cunningham
I pity anybody who has to spend a day with me. — Marilyn Manson
When I meet a girl, I just sort of do really over-exaggerated terrible dance moves... a lot of hip movements. I get them laughing, and… — Nicholas D'Agosto
The man who is meek is not even sensitive about himself. He is not always watching himself and his own interests. He is not always… — Martyn
The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack — Sophie Swetchine
We work with the people not out of pity but out of respect for their potential for growth and development, both as individuals and as… — Y. C. James Yen
Do you know...what I think is a great pity? It is this: that we have all become such skeptics that we hardly believe what our… — Isak Dinesen
Therefore, we know about God that He loves and shows pity on His creatures, and also that He is the source of wisdom and knows… — Dorotheus of Gaza
At the table of a gentleman living in the Chausee d'Antin was served up an Arles sausage of enormous size. "Will you accept a slice?"… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Gastronomers of the year 1825, who find sateity in the lap of abundance, and dream of some newly-made dishes, you will not enjoy the discoveries… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Let others mock at you, oppose you, when you are under the influence of any passion; do not be in the least offended with those… — Soren Kierkegaard
What pity 'tis, one that can speak so well, Should in his actions be so ill! — Philip Massinger
I give great thanks to God that he has created a Dalai Lama. Do you really think, as some have argued, that God will be… — Desmond Tutu
Pity is love in undress. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing. — Josh Billings
Art should be independent of all clap-trap - should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with… — James Whistler
A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it… — Frederick Douglass
And the more pity that great folk should have count'nance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than their even-Christen. — William Shakespeare
The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures,… — Eric Hoffer
The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the… — Aristotle
A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written. — Oscar Wilde
Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the… — James Joyce

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