Compassion Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien

“He would have finished Goddam off then and there, but pity stayed his hand. 'It's a pity I've run out of bullets,' he thought.”

— Henry N. Beard

“His pity for them had been overwhelming; but pity was not action.”

— Shusaku Endo

“Pity. What a useless emotion when you don't act on it. Pity is supposed to trigger compassion.”

— Lish McBride

“Beware of pity.”

— Stefan Zweig

“Pity is such a shabby thing. I can torment myself with wanting to feel pity, and yet I don't succeed.”

— Victor Klemperer

“Pity can be a powerful tool. Anytime you can make someone else feel something, you’ve got power over them.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“you say you don’t want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.”

— John Green

“As if pity is, as he has been taught, not a helpless outcry but a powerful tide that could redeem the world...”

— John Updike

“I fucking hated pity. It was a wasted emotion.”

— Ilsa Madden-Mills

“His hands had been reddened, as all men's hands have been, in the slaying before the foundation of the world; now, if he chose,…

— C.S. Lewis

“Again, I felt that unexpected, fierce pity.”

— M. Pierce

“Its a cold comfort to have people pity you.”

— Heather Davis