Alice Tisdale Hobart Quotes

Nothing is so binding as pity.

Alice Tisdale Hobart

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• Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Friendship
  • Two
  • Pity

• What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Get
  • Lessons

• It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Way
  • Water
  • Thoughts

• Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer? Only a great wave of mankind's pity can surmount an immense wave of human misery?

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Great
  • True
  • Help

• We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Evil
  • Sympathy
  • Philosophical

• Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.

  

  Emile Zola
  • People
  • Atmosphere
  • Pity

• Self-pity is the simplest luxury.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Self
  • Luxury
  • Pity

• From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.

  

  G. I. Gurdjieff
  • True
  • Die
  • Compassion

• You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Minutes
  • Bed
  • Pity

• It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Youth
  • Loses
  • Pity

• No oath can be too binding for a lover.

  

  Sophocles
  • Lover
  • Oath
  • Binding

• Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Virtue
  • Pity
  • Prostitutes

• What is lawful is not binding only on some and not binding on others. Lawfulness extends everywhere, through the wide-ruling air and the boundless light of the sky.

  

  Empedocles
  • Others
  • Lawful
  • Binding

• Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

  

  William Law
  • World
  • God
  • Love

• Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • People
  • Talent
  • Clever

• He does not feel pity for himself - thus he can successfully develop.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Feel
  • Develop
  • Pity

• I wonder why love is so often equated with joy when it is everything else as well. Devastation, balm, obsession, granting and receiving excessive value, and losing it again. It is recognition, often of what you are not but might be. It sears and it heals. It is beyond pity and above law. It can seem like truth.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Truth
  • Joy
  • Value

• Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Love
  • Dead
  • Pity

• When you see a condemned man on his way to the gallows, it moves you to pity. If you could do something to free him, you would do it. Well, brothers and sisters, when I see a person in mortal sin, I see someone drawing nearer with every step to the gallows of hell. And seeing him in this unhappy state, I happen to know the way to free him: that he be converted to God, ask God's pardon, and make a good confession. Woe betide me if he does not.

  

  Anthony Mary Claret
  • Drawing
  • Sin
  • Hell

• The law which their prophet Mohamed has given to muslims is that any harm done to any one who does not accept their law and any appropriation of his goods, is no sin at all.

  

  Marco Polo
  • Done
  • Law
  • Muslims

• I am still bullied occasionally. However, none of my current bullies really exist. They’re all in my head. Be your own best friend instead of your worst enemy.

  

  Abiola Abrams
  • Friend
  • Bully
  • Worst enemy

• Nothing is so binding as pity.

  

  Alice Tisdale Hobart
  • Pity
  • Binding