Pity Quotes
1088 Pity quotes by 756 unique authors
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Pity! The southerly trees have shed their leaves. Nobody comes to appreciate the mountain's beauty. Tomorrow I too will float away. My reflection gone from…
— Cheng Man-ch'ing
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What is pity but the vice of kindness.
— Emile M. Cioran
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We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
— Miguel de Unamuno
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They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
— Arthur Helps
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The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.
— Dean Koontz
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Reform is born of need, not pity.
— Rebecca Harding Davis
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Pity speaks to grief more sweetly than a band of instruments.
— Bryan Procter
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Pity makes suffering contagious.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
— Vicki Baum
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Pity is like lust ... both like to masquerade as love and it's powerfully hard to know the difference when you're in the throes of…
— Unknown Author
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Pity is like eating mustard without beef.
— Augustus Hare
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Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save.
— Edwin Arlington Robinson
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Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.
— BolesÅ‚aw Prus
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Pity is always twinged with disgust.
— Daniel Quinn
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.
— Willa Cather
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It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.
— Lyman Abbott
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If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity is but cold…
— Aesop
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God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.
— Albert Camus
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Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.
— Clarence Darrow
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Even your pity is like a blast of wind and the words you speak would strip a tree of its blossoms.
— Tulsidas
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A woman's pity often opens the door to love.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward…
— John Templeton
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DO you know how people who have nothing delude themselves? You believe that there are things like truth and pity. There aren't such things. Do…
— Kim Do-hoon
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