Pity Quotes
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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 -
He Who is wrapped in purple robes, With planets in His care, Had pity on the least of things Asleep upon a chair.
William Butler Yeats
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The cow to me is a sermon on pity.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Victims take pity on victims.
Antonio Porchia -
pity runs its course. An hour comes when no hand but your own can build your future.
Zelda Popkin -
Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love.
Lao Tzu -
Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
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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Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.
Vladimir Nabokov -
The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds.
William Shakespeare -
While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of love.
William Butler Yeats -
Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had not many of them, and they make but a poor figure on our shelves. It is a pity that things should be thus with us, for a good essayist is the pleasantest companion imaginable.
William Ernest Henley -
We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.
Sara Willis -
Self-pity is the simplest luxury.
Rita Mae Brown -
Let us not doubt that God has a father's pity towards us, and that in the removal of that which is dearest to us He is still loving and kind. Death separates, but it also unites. It reunites whom it separates.
Abraham Coles -
I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.
George Bernard Shaw -
The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.
Aristotle
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If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into the home of the unhappy and the needy. Perhaps even in the famous mother – love there is a good deal of curiosity.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.
D. H. Lawrence -
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.
Paul Auster -
You pity the fool because you don't want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won't have to beat him up. So that's why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don't know no better. That's why I pity them!
Mr. T