Pity Quotes

• Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

  

  William Law
  • World
  • God
  • Love

• 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
  • Hands
  • Virtue
  • Memorable

• The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • World
  • Suffering
  • Kindness

• O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Suffering
  • Sympathy
  • Saws

• There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Passion
  • Lust
  • Cruelty

• I pity you all... Most of you will die - scratch that - ALL of you.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • You
  • Die
  • Pity

• An injured man must not feel pity for himself, otherwise he will live in sorrow for the rest of his life.

  

  Chenjerai Hove
  • Himself
  • Injured
  • Not Feel

• 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
  • Feels
  • Humans
  • Natural

• Gastronomers of the year 1825, who find sateity in the lap of abundance, and dream of some newly-made dishes, you will not enjoy the discoveries which science has in store for the year 1900, such as foods drawn from the mineral kingdom, liqueurs produced by the pressure of a hundred atmospheres; you will never see the importations which travelers yet unborn will bring to you from that half of the globe which has still to be discovered or explored. How I pity you!

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Dream
  • Food
  • Atmosphere

• It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Easy
  • Vanity
  • Pity

• Self-pity” is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative.

  

  Renata Adler
  • Think
  • Sadness
  • Pity

• Ah, sweet pity. Where would my love life have been without it?

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Life
  • Love
  • Pity

• Reform is born of need, not pity.

  

  Rebecca Harding Davis
  • Pity
  • Reform

• I will look, your Honor, and endeavor to find a precedent, if you require it; though it would seem to be a pity that the Court should lose the honor of being the first to establish so just a rule.

  

  Rufus Choate
  • Law
  • Honor
  • Looks

• Mercy, Pity, Peace Is the world's release.

  

  William Blake
  • Peace
  • Mercy
  • Pity

• 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
  • Father
  • Earth
  • Jesus

• Pity is sworn servant unto love: And this be sure, wherever it begin To make the way, it lets your master in.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Way
  • Masters
  • Servant

• What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree.

  

  Elizabeth George Speare
  • Children
  • Tree
  • Pity

• You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Idiot
  • Village
  • Idealist

• 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
  • Drawing
  • Sin
  • Hell

• A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmth from the fire and with the pity and beauty and power of her death. The thunder rolled.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Fire
  • Tree
  • Window

• Pity's tears are spontaneous.

  

  Anna Cora Mowatt
  • Tears
  • Pity
  • Spontaneous

• 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
  • Grief
  • Pity
  • Sharing

• Pity. It seems determined to follow me everywhere.

  

  Ari Marmell
  • Follow
  • Pity
  • Everywhere

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