"My subject is War, and the pity of……" — Wilfred Owen
"My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity."
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Wilfred Owen
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56 Quotes by Wilfred Owen
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The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than…
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What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
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Walking abroad, one is the admiration of all little boys, and meets an approving glance from every eye of elderly.
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The marvel is that we did not all die of cold. As a matter of fact, only one of my…
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No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.
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Was it for this the clay grew tall?
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And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.
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Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is…
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If I have to be a soldier I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable
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The Young Soldier It is not death Without hereafter To one in dearth Of life and its laughter, Nor the…
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All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.
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All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.
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More Pity Quotes
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one of 1,088 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will…
— Francis of Assisi
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Those who do not complain are never pitied.
— Jane Austen
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What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
— Joseph Addison
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It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
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Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
— William Blake
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In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling…
— Mary J. Blige
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I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons…
— Lionel Blue
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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others,…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and…
— David Brainerd
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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
— Anton Chekhov
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