Pity Quotes
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Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.
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pity runs its course. An hour comes when no hand but your own can build your future.
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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?
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I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
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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.
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I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion.
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It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian.
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Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear and pity. Such an effect is best produced when the events come on us by surprise; and the effect is heightened when, at the same time, they follow as cause and effect. The tragic wonder will then be great than if they happened of themselves or by accident; for even coincidences are most striking when they have an air of design.
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A tragedy, then, is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself; in language ... not in a narrative form; with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.
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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
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Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.
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A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
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It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.
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You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.
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In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.
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How’s Her Royal Bitchiness?” “Alive.” “Pity.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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When I look back at experience [with my father], all I can do is feel pity. You know, how torn he was about how to act, what to say. And it seems an important story to me.
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He Who is wrapped in purple robes, With planets in His care, Had pity on the least of things Asleep upon a chair.
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Everyone today plays the same way, very dull. ... It is a pity there are no characters like John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors or, maybe, Ilie Nastase today.
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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.
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The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.
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My own heart let me more have pity on; let Me live to my sad self hereafter kind, Charitable; not live this tormented mind With this tormented mind tormenting yet.
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A woman's pity often opens the door to love.
