Pity Quotes
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For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions eternally the same in all of us: love, pity, terror do not show favorites or leave any of us out.
Eudora Welty
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Spurned pity can turn into cruelty just as spurned love turns into hate.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
William Blake
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I will never tire of repeating this: what the poor need the most is not pity but love. They need to feel respect for their human dignity, which is neither less nor different from the dignity of any other human being.
Mother Teresa
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What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
Oscar Wilde
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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
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Pity makes suffering contagious.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Great God, have pity on the wicked, for thou didst everything for the good, when thou madest them good!
Saadi
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Comrades! The kulak uprising in your five districts must be crushed without pity. You must make example of these people. (1) Hang (I mean hang publicly, so that people see it) at least 100 kulaks, rich bastards, and known bloodsuckers. (2) Publish their names. (3) Seize all their grain. (4) Single out the hostages per my instructions in yesterday's telegram. Do all this so that for miles around people see it all, understand it, tremble, and tell themselves that we are killing the bloodthirsty kulaks and that we will continue to do so ...Find tougher people.
Vladimir Lenin
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Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
Helen Keller
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I met Gerhard Richter and Alighiero Boetti when I was a teenager, and I was really inspired by them. When Boetti died, I realized I only vaguely remembered so many things he told me. It was such a pity. Had I only recorded his voice, he would still be with me, and I could listen to it from time to time.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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Were't not for laughing, I should pity him.
William Shakespeare
