Pity Quotes

1088 Pity quotes by 756 unique authors

Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we… — Kevin Malarkey
Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone. — Criss Jami
Pity. It seems determined to follow me everywhere. — Ari Marmell
What a position of transcendent horror must that be, where the perpetrator of a great crime, till then a stranger to positive guilt, finds himself… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies! — Amos Bronson Alcott
How can one be compassionate if you belong to any religion, follow any guru, believe in something, believe in your scriptures, and so on, attached… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
All pity is self-pity. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Self-pity ? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage. — E. M. Forster
Do you not think that sometimes when matters are at the worst with us, when we appear to have done all which we ourselves can… — James Anthony Froude
I learn to pity woes so like my own. — John Dryden
Pity is the feeling of well-intentioned people who are unable to act. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer
What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse. — Bill Vaughan
No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man. — Louisa May Alcott
Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure; Pity then will cut… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in Christian Sensibility over… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Pity is a benign form of abuse. — Michael J. Fox
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to… — Anatole France
When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to… — John Galsworthy
I understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don't want pity or random advice. — Teri Garr
Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement,… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for… — Andre Gide
I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas. — Jean-Luc Godard
You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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