Human beings Quote by Niels Bohr

God pity us indeed, for we are human, And do not always see, The vision when it comes, the shining change, Or, if we…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn't mind being pitied. If you love me, pity me. The human state…

— Jessamyn West

I contemplated pride and love. All this contemplativeness. When will I be free of it?

— Robert Walser

too great pity is the greatest cruelty.

— St. Catherine of Siena

For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

— William Blake

It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle,…

— Laurence Sterne

And therefore I looked down into the great pity of a person’s life on this earth. I don’t mean that we all end up…

— Denis Johnson

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

— Charles Spurgeon

As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts.

— Shirley Chisholm

Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know,…

— Mary Astell

Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me.

— Charlaine Harris

Do you know...what I think is a great pity? It is this: that we have all become such skeptics that we hardly believe what…

— Isak Dinesen

It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had--yea, and that among very wise men--to find out rather a cunning man for their…

— Roger Ascham

But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but,…

— Dean Koontz

It's a pity that there's such a negative connotation about paying for sex.

— Annie Sprinkle