Pity Quotes

1088 Pity quotes by 756 unique authors

Expect nothing. Live frugally On surprise. become a stranger To need of pity Or, if compassion be freely Given out Take only enough Stop short… — Alice Walker
pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not… — Mark Twain
Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the dying moan of… — Graham Greene
Unless a man has pity he is not truly a man. If a man has not wept at the worlds pain he is only half… — William Saroyan
Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol' "The audience is… — David Foster Wallace
The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find… — Cornelia Funke
I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife inside because there was no alternative except to hide as long as possible---… — Charles Bukowski
A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in… — Herman Melville
A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin… — Victor Hugo
Pity the planet, all joy gone from this sweet volcanic cone; peace to our children when they fall in small war on the heel of… — Robert Lowell
Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us… — Richard Wright
A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is… — Wendy Mass
A miracle. Here's our own hands against our hearts. Come, I will have thee, but by this light I take thee for pity. Beatrice: I… — William Shakespeare
If you looked down to the bottom of my soul, you would understand fully the source of my longing and – pity me. Even the… — Hans Christian Andersen
It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the… — John Fowles
Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'some one,' like everybody else. But he was too… — Gaston Leroux
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys. — Graham Greene
It is a pity that there are no big creatures to prey on humanity. If there were enough dragons and rocs, perhaps mankind would turn… — T.H. White
Oh, so that's why you're up here. For a pity party." "This isn't a joke. I'm serious." I could tell Lissa was getting angry. It… — Richelle Mead
I once lay in a white hospital for the dying and the dying self, where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things… — Charles Bukowski
remember the golden apple-trees; O, do not pity them, as you watch them drop one by one, for they fall exhausted, numb, blind but in… — Hilda Doolittle
Ah; but my courage fails me, and my heart is sick within me! —Lord, take pity on the Christian who doubts, on the skeptic who… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictions, he cried, in his outraged pity: 'If a God has… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
A pity to survive night flights over St. Georges Channel only to crack my skull falling from a ladder. — Eoin Colfer

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