Pity Quotes

1088 Pity quotes by 756 unique authors

Things might have been different if she hadn't been able to drift; if she'd had to concentrate on her next meal, instead of dwelling on… — Margaret Atwood
It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite… — Virginia Woolf
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A… — Nelson Algren
Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door. — William Blake
It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth. — Vincent Van Gogh
Self-pity is a sin. It is a form of living suicide. — Charles J. Shields
WL’s [White Liberals] think all the world’s problems can be fixed without any cost to themselves. We don’t believe that. There’s a lot to be… — Paul Farmer
That's a pretty story,' said Afanasievna as she let go of Ansky's genitals. 'A pity I'm too old and have seen to much to believe… — Roberto Bolano
And so he did his endless work,' I continued quietly, 'without feeling, without pity, without rest, for to open his heart to these would be… — Martine Leavitt
But there are times when a tree can no longer withstand the pain inflicted on it, and the wind will take pity on that tree… — Julius Lester
When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me — Jacqueline Carey
Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too. — Graham Greene
The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly. — William Shakespeare
When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a quality God's image… — Graham Greene
How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion. — Stephen Levine
He was looking at me, jsut as I'd thought he would be, but like Bert's, his light was not what I expected. No pity, no… — Sarah Dessen
He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity. — Anais Nin
A pity it was so early in the day and I couldn't treat myself to the roller coaster. we'll have to come back, you and… — Nora Roberts
I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral… — Emily Bronte
Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch or weep tonight, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend your sick ones,… — Saint Augustine
Some things take so long But how do I explain When not too many people Can see we're all the same And because of all… — George Harrison
I don't really get scared. Want to know what else i don't feel?" PITY — Sarah Rees Brennan
She quoted a dead playwright and called me a bullet with nothing but a future. She understood my lack of self-pity. She knew why I… — James Ellroy
I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language. — Muriel Barbery

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