Pity Quotes

• Our industry classic music has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Industry

• 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
  • God
  • Care
  • Planets

• Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Art
  • Definitions
  • Plus

• God has one destined end for mankind - holiness! His one aim is the production of saints. God is not an eternal blessing-machine for men. He did not come to save men out of pity. He came to save men because He had created them to be holy.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Men
  • Aim

• I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Live
  • Pity
  • I Feel

• How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight, whereas a fool declares that it is we who are silly; if it were not so, we should feel pity and not anger.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Anger
  • Recognizes
  • Declares

• 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

• Pity those who cannot say: Thy will be done not mine, today.

  

  Elaine A. Cannon
  • Pity

• The cow to me is a sermon on pity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Pity
  • Cow
  • Sermon

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

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Youth
  • Loses
  • Gains

• 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
  • Important
  • Father
  • Feels

• Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Self
  • Ends
  • Pity

• Self-pity is the simplest luxury.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Self
  • Luxury
  • Simplest

• 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
  • World
  • Melancholy
  • Weariness

• If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Love
  • Gratitude
  • Pity

• 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
  • Death
  • Pity
  • Unites

• Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Grief
  • Clouds
  • Bottom

• If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love. If I, a sinner even as you are, am tender with you and have pity on you, how much more will God have pity upon you. Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and cleanse not only your own sins but the sins of others.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • 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

• Religion is an edifice built upon the dream of a beautiful world... Pity the dreamers are rarely builders.

  

  Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Dream

• 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
  • Fool
  • Pity
  • Give Chance

• Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Wisdom
  • Kindness
  • Eloquence

• On her mastectomy: Pity is delicious. I was crazy about the pity I got. It was the best kind, too. I did not get, nor did I want, the drooling, mewing kind. I preferred something more restrained but deep-felt. Quality pity.

  

  Betty Rollin
  • Pity
  • Delicious
  • Preferred

• Nothing is so binding as pity.

  

  Alice Tisdale Hobart
  • Pity
  • Binding

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