Pity Quotes

1088 Pity quotes by 756 unique authors

It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels. — Virginia Woolf
A typical master. Right to the end, he didn’t give me a chance to get a word in edgeways. Which is a pity, because at… — Jonathan Stroud
When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity. And when women talk… — Pat Conroy
Love was also an easy word, used carelessly. Felons and creeps could offer it coated in sugar, and users could dangle it so enticingly that… — Deb Caletti
I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality. — John Gardner
All you who are in love Aye and can not remove it I pity the pain that you endure. For experience lets me know That… — Maggie Stiefvater
I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions… — Gabrielle Zevin
Nobody likes me,” he concluded at the tail end of a ten-minute pity fest. “Can’t imagine why,” Quinn murmured. I turned my snort of laughter… — Robin Wasserman
Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I pity you all... Most of you will die---scratch that---ALL of you. — Gerard Way
Yet, ironically, it is her very wretchedness that makes me pity her so. I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't know what to… — Christopher Pike
But the day I can't shrug off a twinge of self-pity, is the day I'm washed up for keeps. — Jonathan Lethem
How’s Her Royal Bitchiness?” “Alive.” “Pity. — Nalini Singh
You should go." "I can't." "Because you want to stare at the monster?" Alec's green eyes blaze, but with a wholly human fire now. "Or… — Claudia Gray
Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil — Dante Alighieri
Really, just looking around, you feel a twinge of pity for the poor souls who succeeded in getting past the Pearly Gates. One can't help… — Chuck Palahniuk
The first rose on my rose-tree Budded, bloomed, and shattered, During sad days when to me Nothing mattered. Grief or grief has drained me clean;… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a… — Dylan Thomas
Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience. — William Shakespeare
It was one lesson he never forgot.You don't sit back when you or a loved one is being assaulted.And you don't act like the goverment… — Harlan Coben
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. — George Eliot
Amy bit her lip. "I was so scared, Dan. I couldn't think. She shook her head. "I feel so ashamed of myself. If it wasn't… — Judy Blundell
Tell me I'm a sinner I got news for you I spoke to God this morning and he don't like you! Don't you try and… — Ozzy Osbourne
Lord Maccon, might we have words on the proper tying of a cravat? For my sanity’s sake? Lord Maccon was nonplussed. Professor Lyall, on the… — Gail Carriger

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