Pity Quotes
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pity runs its course. An hour comes when no hand but your own can build your future.
Zelda Popkin
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At the table of a gentleman living in the Chausee d'Antin was served up an Arles sausage of enormous size. "Will you accept a slice?" the host asked a lady who was sitting next to him; "you see it has come from the right factory."It is really very large," said the lady, casting on it a roguish glance; "What a pity it is unlike anything."
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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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.
Emile Zola
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I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion.
Randy Pausch
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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?
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian.
Manfred von Richthofen
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A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
William Butler Yeats
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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.
Aristotle
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Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Aristotle
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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Ernest Hemingway
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It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.
Walter de La Mare
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How’s Her Royal Bitchiness?” “Alive.” “Pity.
Nalini Singh
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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.
Nikola Tesla
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I feel the deepest, heartfelt pity for any adult who has never been in love.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
William Cowper
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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.
Ilie Nastase
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Pity is a really odd thing with abused women. You don't want anyone to think that you feel bad - even though you might.
Kristen Stewart
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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
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Some men make gain a fountain, whence proceeds A stream of liberal and heroic deeds; The swell of pity, not to be confined Within the scanty limits of the mind.
William Cowper
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Our industry classic music has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
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A woman's pity often opens the door to love.
Henry Ward Beecher