Pity Quotes
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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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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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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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The cow to me is a sermon on pity.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.
Vladimir Nabokov
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I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts. It is not too late to complete the work they left undone. Today, here, we should start to do so.
Shirley Chisholm
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I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.
William Cowper
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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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Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.
Sara Willis
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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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Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love.
Lao Tzu
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Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye.
William Shakespeare
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Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift to distract man from the evil she had done him by the former, and by only permitting him to live for a few years after the loss of his passions seems to show her pity by early deliverance from a life that reduces him to reason as his sole resource.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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An injured man must not feel pity for himself, otherwise he will live in sorrow for the rest of his life.
Chenjerai Hove
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Ah, sweet pity. Where would my love life have been without it?
Dan Castellaneta
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The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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
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Pity's tears are spontaneous.
Anna Cora Mowatt
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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
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But very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.
George Eliot
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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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Self-pity is the simplest luxury.
Rita Mae Brown
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I pity you all... Most of you will die - scratch that - ALL of you.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance