Death Quote by Pietro Metastasio

If every man's internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?

— Pietro Metastasio

If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that they had…

— Pietro Metastasio

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.

— Mark Twain

“the pity which the spectators then exhibit is in so far a consolation for the weak and suffering in that the latter recognize therein…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out…

— Richard Whately

It is better to arouse envy than pity.

— Publilius Syrus

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and…

— Mark Twain

We see how much a man has, and therefore we envy him; did we see how little he enjoys, we should rather pity him.

— Jeremiah Seed

Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to the biggest…

— Mahatma Gandhi

If envy was not such a tearing thing to feel it would be the most comic of sins. It is usually, if not always,…

— Monica Furlong

O, if there be any kind of life most sad, and deepest in the scale of pity, it is the dry, cold impotence of…

— Horace Bushnell

I'm not particularly keen on pity. Pity takes something away from grief. People think they're sharing it, but really they're just taking some. I…

— Elizabeth Jane Howard