Appearance Quote by Jane Porter

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…

— Stefan Zweig

Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.

— Eugene H. Peterson

Pity's akin to love; and every thought Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul.

— Thomas Southerne

Pity is the feeling of well-intentioned people who are unable to act.

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

— Horace Mann

Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye.

— William Shakespeare

Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.

— Bolesław Prus

“The sick person becomes very adept at distinguishing between compassion and pity. Compassion is someone else’s suffering flaring in your own nerves. Pity is…

— Christian Wiman

What is pity but the vice of kindness.

— Emile M. Cioran

Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with…

— James Joyce

Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may…

— Samuel Johnson