Pity Quotes

1088 Pity quotes by 756 unique authors

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both… — Mary Wollstonecraft
I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people if they are sorry for… — Agatha Christie
Are you going to go down on your knees and beg for your life, old one?" Abbot Mortimer stared calmly into Cluny's savage eye. "I… — Brian Jacques
It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact… — Arthur Conan Doyle
I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo me; have no… — John Barth
Oh, pity the poor glutton Whose troubles all begin In struggling on and on to turn What's out into what's in. — Walter de La Mare
Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and… — H. Beam Piper
O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again! — Thomas Hardy
It was a pity that there was no radar to guide one across the trackless seas of life. Every man had to find his own… — Arthur C. Clarke
... The truth of the matter is, that most English people don't know how to make tea anymore either, and most people drink cheap instant… — Douglas Adams
One thing was absolutely certain—it was a given for Kazuo. Although he might not have particularlyrealized it, or more appropriately, perhaps because he was incapable… — Koushun Takami
Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I… — Jorge Luis Borges
Piscary killed people, but he didn’t have the concept of pity or remorse. It would be like telling a shark he was a bad fish… — Kim Harrison
A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmth from the fire and with the… — Eudora Welty
Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression. Isn't there some other way to look at this?… — Susanna Kaysen
Pity you can't attach an extra arm to your [broom], Malfoy. Then it could catch the Snitch for you. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Were't not for laughing, I should pity him. — William Shakespeare
We lay on the ground and kissed. Perhaps you smile. That we only lay on the ground and kissed. You young people can lend your… — John Fowles
Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can't do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for they have no imagination. The sky's… — Tom Hiddleston
I am still learning about love. I thought I understood it--not just mother love, but the love for one's parents, for one's husband, and for… — Lisa See
I've been labelled many times - a criminal, an anarchist, a rebel, sometimes human garbage, but never a philosopher, which is a pity because that's… — Steve Toltz
For instance, I never complained that my birthday was overlooked; people were even surprised, with a touch of admiration, by my discretion on this subject.… — Albert Camus
Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics. — Sebastian Horsley
The army slew a thousand and showed little pity The king ordered fealty from the conquered city The prince charmed its people with words wise… — Shannon Hale
Certainly. But take this into consideration: of every ten problems we have, nine are created by our own selves - through guilt, self-punishment, self-pity. However,… — Paulo Coelho

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