Pity Quotes

1088 Pity quotes by 756 unique authors

It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore. — Ava Gardner
Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that would be eliminated from schools, too? — Red Skelton
In some ways I feel sorry for racists and for religious fanatics, because they so much miss the point of being human, and deserve a… — Christopher Hitchens
Listen and understand. That Terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or… — Michael Biehn
I am focused on what needs to be done for the people of Israel. Period. I do not pity myself and I do not pat… — Ehud Olmert
When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my labor which yielded… — Henry David Thoreau
Good steel bends, but never breaks. Good steel stays always sharp and ready. Good steel feels no pain, no pity, and above all, no remorse — Joe Abercrombie
The Justice of today is born of yesterday's pity. — Julia Lathrop
It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go… — Anita Brookner
Alone thou goest forth, O Lord, in sacrifice to die; is this thy sorrow naught to us who pass unheeding by? Our sins, not thine,… — Peter Abelard
Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. — Wilfred Owen
I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce scenes symbolized by… — Teju Cole
I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not… — Richard Adams
The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding… — Shirley Chisholm
The French constitute the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation in Europe and the best qualified in turn to become an object of admiration,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a human being. I… — Kurt Vonnegut
Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Pity the nation that needs to jail those who ask for justice,… — Arundhati Roy
What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me,and drench me in loneliness. — Amy Lowell
So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will… — John Berryman
The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing… — Arthur Miller
AÂ form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the greatest one -… — Siegbert Tarrasch
It is said that peace is the basic tenet of all religion. Yet it is in the name of religion that there has been so… — Taslima Nasrin
You can’t be disturbed by anything. There’s no emotion involved. You can’t feel sorrow, you can’t feel pity, there’s nothing you feel. The job has… — Mike Tyson
What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it! — Emile M. Cioran

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