Pity Quotes

1088 Pity quotes by 756 unique authors

Charity isn't about pity, it is about love. — Mother Teresa
Spiritual Love is born of sorrow. . . . For men love one another with spiritual love only when they have suffered the same sorrow… — Miguel de Unamuno
Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice. — Cyril Connolly
Holidays - Have no pity. — Eugenio Montale
Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others. It is a delicate foresight of the troubles into which we… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the… — Thomas Paine
Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some… — F. H. Bradley
To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow… — Phyllis Bottome
Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something… — H. L. Mencken
God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed… — J. G. Holland
I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for… — Booker T. Washington
I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do is to improve it, if… — Patrick Henry
Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy. Hence our eyes,… — Henry Fielding
As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. — Edith Wharton
Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of… — George Eliot
These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and… — George Eliot
He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary valley, and Ettie… — Arthur Conan Doyle
If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their plaintive stories; for pity presupposes… — Lyndon B. Johnson
In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops. — Friedrich Nietzsche
To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. — William Blake
Give me ... a compassionate heart, quickly moved to grieve for the woes of others and to active pity for them, even as our Lord… — Johann Arndt
Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

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