Pity Quote by John Updike

“However powerfully pity affects us, it nevertheless saves us in a way from the primordial suffering of the world, just”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Pity is an emotion that should have never been created. Pity was strong and could break the backs of people fighting for survival and…

— Elizabeth Isaacs

“to him that is pitiless the deeds of pity are ever strange and beyond comprehension.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“To him that is pitiless the deeds of pity are ever strange and beyond reckoning.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“If I have learned anything it is that pity is more intelligent than hatred, that mercy is better than justice, that if one walks…

— Philip Gibbs

“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.”

— Helen Keller

“It is no small pity, and should cause us no little shame, that, through our own fault, we do not understand ourselves, or know…

— Teresa of Ávila

“And so does pity lead straight to disaster.”

— Naomi Novik

“Do not pity yourself. If you wallow in self-pity, life will be an endless nightmare.”

— Kafka Asagiri

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

— Brandon Sanderson

“He will pity us who pitied everyone ... And He will say, 'I receive them, my wise and reasonable ones, forasmuch as not one…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Beware of pity.”

— Stefan Zweig