Pity Quotes

1088 Pity quotes by 756 unique authors

It seemed to Alabama that, reaching her goal, she would drive the devils that had driven her - that, in proving herself, she would achieve… — Zelda Fitzgerald
The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the whingeing self-pity of… — Richard Dawkins
You need not fear me, for I not only should think it wrong to marry a man that was deficient in sense or in principle,… — Anne Bronte
For the record, suspicion can kill, and prejudice can destroy. And a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own, for… — Rod Serling
You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance," Domingo said. — William Goldman
This isn’t happening to you, princess,” Sabine snapped before I could do more than shake my head. “This is happening to us. While you spent… — Rachel Vincent
It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just… — Aldous Huxley
And it's a pity too that I've no right to open your letters. I hope you don't get many, or my conscience will give me… — Diana Wynne Jones
As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat. — Victor Hugo
He was addicted to me and now he has gone cold turkey. He used to send me fifty texts a day. And now he is… — Emma Forrest
Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be… — C.S. Lewis
Tears have a better character cried alone. Pity can sometimes be more wolf than dog. — Sebastian Barry
This train of thought was heading straight for Pity City, and she wanted to get off. — Lauren Kate
When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself included. — Mary Oliver
Desperation is a millstone. It wears away at the very soul, grinding away pity, kindness, humanity and courage. But sometimes it whets the mind to… — Frances Hardinge
...and I confess that, like a child, I cry. Ah, self-pity; I think we are at our most honest and sincere when we feel sorry… — Iain Banks
Forsooth, I no longer toil in vain, To prove that demon pox warps the brain. So though 'ti pity, it's not in vain That the… — Cassandra Clare
Only fools pity survivors their scars and you should never kowtow to fools — Jeaniene Frost
For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him. — HalldÃ³r Laxness
In our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their most familiar surroundings,… — John Irving
And on the last day, the bad days become so difficult to recall, because one way or another, she had made a life here, just… — John Green
I will teach you to love death. I will empty you of grief and guilt and self-pity and fill you up with hate and cunning… — Rick Yancey
Self-pity” is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative. — Renata Adler
Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it… — Cheryl Strayed
There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the heart's impatience to be rid as… — Stefan Zweig

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