Pity Quotes

1088 Pity quotes by 756 unique authors

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around. — Georges Bernanos
I have always had a slight feeling of pity for man who has no knowledge of chess. — Siegbert Tarrasch
Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the doer of the… — Mahatma Gandhi
Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent in the divine… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more. — Michelangelo
It would be more in keeping with the intention of the noblest man in this world if our two Christian churches, instead of annoying Negroes… — Adolf Hitler
Despite not knowing if what he felt from moment to moment would pass or last forever, he entered fully into his shifting states of violent… — Diane Ackerman
O my dear parishioners, let us endeavor to get to heaven! There we shall see God. How happy we shall feel! If the parish is… — Jean-Marie Le Pen
To the last day of your life, be positive; try to be cheerful. Even at the very end, don't think, "I am finished." Instead of… — Paramahansa Yogananda
You create a good future by creating a good present. How do you do that? By recognizing the goodness that is already inherent in the… — Eckhart Tolle
It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think… — Mark Twain
The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the… — Leo Tolstoy
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible. — Elizabeth Bowen
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near… — Edward Dahlberg
But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive.… — Rudyard Kipling
I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul… — Georges Bernanos
I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means of transport, although… — Amy Johnson
The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in… — John Berger
At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need… — Albert Einstein
Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. — Mark Twain
Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself. — Joseph Hall
If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea… — William Hazlitt
You ought to pity me 'cause there's always one man to love/ But in the bedroom the size of him's more than enough. — Lady Gaga

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