Pity Quotes
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Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?
William Shakespeare -
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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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.
William Law -
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 -
What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.
Bill Vaughan -
It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.
Vincent Van Gogh -
Religion is an edifice built upon the dream of a beautiful world... Pity the dreamers are rarely builders.
Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal -
It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.
Terry Eagleton
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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.
Gerard Manley Hopkins -
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 -
He does not feel pity for himself - thus he can successfully develop.
Lao Tzu -
But very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.
George Eliot -
The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.
William Shakespeare -
There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.
George Bernard Shaw
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Be collected. No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart There's no harm done.
William Shakespeare -
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 -
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 -
Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience.
William Shakespeare -
It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.
Baruch Spinoza -
Nothing is so binding as pity.
Alice Tisdale Hobart
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Pity! The southerly trees have shed their leaves. Nobody comes to appreciate the mountain's beauty. Tomorrow I too will float away. My reflection gone from cool streams.
Cheng Man-ch'ing -
It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.
Ava Gardner -
The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.
William Shakespeare -
O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer!
William Shakespeare