Pity Quotes

1088 Pity quotes by 756 unique authors

And therefore I looked down into the great pity of a person’s life on this earth. I don’t mean that we all end up dead,… — Denis Johnson
Even now, as I write this, I can still feel that tightness. And I want you to feel it--the wind coming off the river, the… — Tim O'Brien
What would you do? Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood and your dreams… — Tim O'Brien
Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces… — Oscar Wilde
Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to the biggest dance… — Mahatma Gandhi
She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I lov'd her that she did pity them — William Shakespeare
The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding… — William Faulkner
Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis. — Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love. — Laurell K. Hamilton
Clary grinned. "A picnic? It's a little late for Central Park, don't you think? It's full of-" He waved a hand. "Faeries. I know." "I… — Cassandra Clare
Ben Adaephon Delat," Pearl said plaintively, "see the last who comes. You send me to my death." "I know," Quick Ben whispered. "Flee, then. I… — Steven Erikson
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast. — William Shakespeare
in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language… — Alexandre Dumas
She dreams of him that has forgot her love; You dote on her that cares not for your love. 'Tis pity love should be so… — William Shakespeare
When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty… — Ayn Rand
but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings. — George Eliot
The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice. Yet had I… — H.G. Wells
It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. — H.G. Wells
Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent." -Kahlan — Terry Goodkind
Pity does not get you aid. Admiration at your refusal to give in does. — Suzanne Collins
Sounded to me like he had a pretty good idea what he was saying," Van replied, with surprisingly little anger. "It's a pity he had… — Jonathan Franzen
Try not to sing too many sad songs for yourself. The universe already hates you. Self-pity isn't going to help. — Richard Kadrey
Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the… — Khalil Gibran
A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror, welled up in Bilbo's heart: a glimpse of endless unmarked days without light or hope of betterment,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer. — Charlotte Bronte

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