Pity Quotes

1088 Pity quotes by 756 unique authors

I defy you to try it, Princess. Go ahead. I don’t even know how to sweep a floor. All I know how to do is… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
This is pity,” he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world… — Ayn Rand
I pity those born of the lighter side. They have no understanding of how seductive cruelty is. The music made out of screams and pleas… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
There is no trickier subject for a writer from the South than that of affection between a black person and a white one in the… — Kathryn Stockett
Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread. — Michael Pollan
Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will win… — Christopher Hitchens
I pity the shrimp that matches wits with you Jeeves — P.G. Wodehouse
You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized… — Christopher Hitchens
I am a personal optimist but a skeptic about all else. What may sound to some like anger is really nothing more than sympathetic contempt.… — George Carlin
Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies. — Patrick Rothfuss
Flaubert was right when he said that our use of language is like a cracked kettle on which we bang out tunes for bears to… — Christopher Hitchens
But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but, instead,… — Dean Koontz
Life's very difficult and full of surprises. At all events, I've got as far as that. To be humble and kind, to go straight ahead,… — E. M. Forster
I'm no use to anybody,' I say. 'I'm a cérébrale, can't you see that?' Thinking how funny a book would be, called 'Just a Cérébrale… — Jean Rhys
I have mastered many things in my life. Navigating the streets of London, speaking French without an accent, dancing the quadrille, the Japanese art of… — Cassandra Clare
If you took this thing on yourself, unwilling, at others' asking, then you have pity and honour from me. And I marvel at you: to… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Self-pity is like chocolate; as you get older, you can only afford a little bit. — Charlaine Harris
To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain. — Herman Melville
The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others. — Tennessee Williams
Hateful day when I received life!' I exclaimed in agony. 'Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for… — Deb Caletti
Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches. — Walter de La Mare
Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights. Since I was born, hasn't every word… — Jean Rhys
It's not a problem. There are people out there with much worse problems than mine."-Cynthia "Doesn't make yours any more fun to bear."-Liza "No. But… — Jennifer Crusie

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