Pity Quotes
-
I'm not particularly keen on pity. Pity takes something away from grief. People think they're sharing it, but really they're just taking some. I prefer to keep my grief intact.
Elizabeth Jane Howard
-
Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.
William Law
-
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
-
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
-
Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love.
Lao Tzu
-
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
-
Reform is born of need, not pity.
Rebecca Harding Davis
-
Self-pity is the simplest luxury.
Rita Mae Brown
-
We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
-
Be collected. No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart There's no harm done.
William Shakespeare
-
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
-
Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience.
William Shakespeare
-
I pity you all... Most of you will die - scratch that - ALL of you.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
-
When you see a condemned man on his way to the gallows, it moves you to pity. If you could do something to free him, you would do it. Well, brothers and sisters, when I see a person in mortal sin, I see someone drawing nearer with every step to the gallows of hell. And seeing him in this unhappy state, I happen to know the way to free him: that he be converted to God, ask God's pardon, and make a good confession. Woe betide me if he does not.
Anthony Mary Claret
-
One grows out of pity when it's useless.
Albert Camus
-
What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree.
Elizabeth George Speare
-
People seem to think themselves in some ways superior to heaven itself, when they complain of the sorrow and want round about them. And yet it is not the devil for certain who puts pity into their hearts.
Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie
-
Multiculturalism is a campaign to lower America's moral status by defining the American experience is terms of myriad repressionsand their victims. By rewriting history, and by using name calling ("Racist! Sexist! Homophobe!") to inhibit debate, multiculturalists cultivate grievances, self pity and claims to entitlements arising from victimization.
George Will
-
O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer!
William Shakespeare
-
Self-pity” is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative.
Renata Adler
-
There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.
George Bernard Shaw
-
Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated.
Albert Camus
-
Pity those who don't feel anything at all
Sarah J. Maas
-
You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
Stanley Kubrick