Pity Quotes

1088 Pity quotes by 756 unique authors

Nor did I need anyone's pity, but I would accept it with grace, because I have been well trained. Rudeness was a sign of weakness.… — Robin Wasserman
I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by your propinquity to find Your person… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I couldn't help but think, as I watched him, of the barrels of toxic fluids that had accrued behind Hal's bike shop where the scrub… — Alice Sebold
The purpose of a short story is ... that the reader shall come away with the satisfactory feeling that a particular insight into human character… — Lin Yutang
Sooner or later, fate puts us together with all the people, one by one, who show us what we could, and shouldn’t, let ourselves become.… — Gregory David Roberts
Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are positively all blanks,… — Henry James
If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end! — H P Lovecraft
It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are finished. Mrs. Miracle — Debbie Macomber
Not hear it? --yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long --long --long --many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it --yet… — Edgar Allan Poe
They walked back into the world together, wearing the gift that had been given them: just life. Pity was not love, Barbie reflected...but if you… — Stephen King
It sometimes seemed to him that for love to work, it had to be fair, that he should tell only half the joke, and she… — Tao Lin
What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint. — Marc Chagall
She bounded before me, and returned to my side, and was off again like a young greyhound; and, at first, I found plenty of entertaiment… — Emily Bronte
Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own. — Louis Zukofsky
A flood of emotions rushes into me. Pain and anger. Sadness and pity. But most surprising of all, hope. — Jay Asher
this is what happens to the plans of humans, it is when they make them in the midst of their pleasures that death cuts the… — Marquis de Sade
If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we… — Loren Eiseley
Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go. — Anne Carson
Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease… — Og Mandino
Have you ever happened, reader, to feel that subtle sorrow of parting with an unloved abode? The heart does not break, as it does in… — Vladimir Nabokov
I thought told you to watch where you put your feet," he said accusingly. Erak shrugged. I did," he replied ruefully. "But while I was… — John Flanagan
Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically… — Robert A. Heinlein
The raw hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound, and I know where the mouth is. And I think the… — Suzanne Collins

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