Pity Quotes
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What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.
Bill Vaughan
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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
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Nothing is so binding as pity.
Alice Tisdale Hobart
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Almighty and eternal Lord God, the great Creator of heaven and earth, and the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; look down from heaven in pity and compassion upon me thy servant, who humbly prostrate myself before thee.
George Washington
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Religion is an edifice built upon the dream of a beautiful world... Pity the dreamers are rarely builders.
Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal
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The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There's great sadness and life doesn't work out like you would want, on a lot of levels, but there's no need to feel all alone. This happens to everybody, so there's no self-pity. This is the ride that humans are on, and all of it is essential for our natural part of it.
Mike Mills
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Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.
D. H. Lawrence
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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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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
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Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.
Sara Willis
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It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.
Vincent Van Gogh
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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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If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.
George Bernard Shaw
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Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye.
William Shakespeare
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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
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But very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.
George Eliot
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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
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These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow.
Victor Hugo
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The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.
William Shakespeare
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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
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Mercy, Pity, Peace Is the world's release.
William Blake
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
Virginia Woolf
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An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single.
Charlotte Bingham