Injured Quote by Margaret Campbell Barnes

Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others. It is a delicate foresight of the troubles into which…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We pity people too often for the wrong reasons.

— Katherine Anne Porter

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters which may…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.

— Luc de Clapiers

Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.

— William Blake

Pity is just another form of abuse.

— Michael J. Fox

Pity is something only weakness wants.

— Mabel Seeley

Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong.

— Edwin Arnold

To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.

— Herman Melville

Pity is easy, but it is difficult to care.

— Ray Davies

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

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer