Pity Quotes

1088 Pity quotes by 756 unique authors

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath. — Woodrow Wilson
A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love. — William Butler Yeats
God pity the poor novelist. — Steven Millhauser
Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you're hurting. — Paul Monette
I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that… — J.R.R. Tolkien
It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and… — Peter Matthiessen
It’s a pity if someone… has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice, his work embodies… — Leonard Cohen
If you live in a past dream, you don't enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
I must, before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet -- a… — Bertrand Russell
Our poor people are great people, a very lovable people, They don't need our pity and sympathy. They need our understanding love and they need… — Mother Teresa
I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt if it is… — C.S. Lewis
Beauty plus pity-that is the closest we can get to a definition of art. Where there is beauty there is pity for the simple reason… — Vladimir Nabokov
Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
She was moved by a kind of commiseration... a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment,… — Kate Chopin
Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and… — C.S. Lewis
And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn. — Oscar Wilde
Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation. — Dorothy Parker
I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to… — Mitch Albom
I don’t think I pity her. She doesn’t strike me as a girl that suggests compassion. I think I envy her... I don’t know whether… — Henry James
It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men. — Marilynne Robinson
I didn't know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love. It's huge and desperate and it longs to be proved wrong.… — Jeanette Winterson
The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read. — Benjamin Franklin
Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black and loving mourners be, Looking… — William Shakespeare

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