Pity Quotes

Pity Quote of the day

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors.

The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

Speech is a powerful master and achieves the most divine feats with the smallest and least evident body. It can stop fear, relieve pain, create joy, and increase pity

Even your pity is like a blast of wind and the words you speak would strip a tree of its blossoms.

O Beloved of Hearts, I beseech only You. Have pity this day on those who turn to You. My Hope, my Rest, my Delight, this heart can love none other but You.

Anyone who attempts to construe a personal view of God which conflicts with church dogma must be burned without pity.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will.

Never take yourself too seriously.

Misery is a communicable disease.

It's true he was a sinner. But don't pass so final a judgement. Have pity in your heart and don't forget that he may yet be an Augustine, while you remain just another mediocrity.

In extreme danger fear feels no pity. [Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.]

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me

Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.

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

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

God is looking for those with whom He can do the impossible - what a pity that we plan only the things that we can do by ourselves.

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

Old age is no place for sissies.

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

Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He's picked out a favorite place to feed his body, but he doesn't have a favorite place to feed his mind!

Watch waterfalls of pity roar, you feel to moan but unlike before, you discover that you'd just be one more person crying.

If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.

If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color.

Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.

Life ain't all beer and skittles, and more's the pity; but what's the odds, so long as you're happy?

We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.

PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.

The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.

I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?

Oh may He look on us with love and pity and then we shall be able to do anything He wishes us to do, no matter how difficult to accomplish or painful to our feeling.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.

O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!

From his proceedings in Congress, he appears demented, and his actings and doings inspire my pity more than anger.

Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.

Pity you can't attach an extra arm to your [broom], Malfoy. Then it could catch the Snitch for you.

It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian.

Pity the married couple who expect too much from one another.

I keep remembering — I keep remembering. My heart has no pity on me.

Try to avoid complaints. Self-pity even when legitimate never fails to undermine your strength.

Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity's sake be it to the top of your bent.

For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.