Pity Quotes

Guilt stirs me, but only to self-pity.

Every generation gets a chance to change the world Pity the nation that won't listen to your boys and girls Cos the sweetest melody is the one we haven't heard

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me,and drench me in loneliness.

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.

Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.

Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner, there ain't no hiding place from the Father of Creation.

Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.

Baby, in a world without pity Do you think what I'm askin's too much I just want to feel you in my arms Share a little of that Human Touch.

Forsooth, I no longer toil in vain, To prove that demon pox warps the brain. So though 'ti pity, it's not in vain That the pox-ridden worm was slain: For to believe in me, you all must deign.

I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife inside because there was no alternative except to hide as long as possible--- not in self-pity but with dismay at my limited chance: trying to connect.

It is a pity that many Christians have the TV schedule better memorized than a single chapter for God's precious Word.

O pity the dead that are dead, but cannot make the journey, still they moan and beat against the silvery adamant walls of life's exclusive city.

During a photo-call with fellow Olympic gold medallist Duncan Goodhew- Pity Steve Ovett didn't show up. Then we could have had the good, the bald and the ugly.

And it's a pity too that I've no right to open your letters. I hope you don't get many, or my conscience will give me no peace.

In the field of controversy I always pity the moderate party, who stand on the open middle ground exposed to the fire of both sides.

Sacrificers ... are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those that they sacrifice. Oh, the sacrificers, they get it both ways. A person knows themselves that they're able to do without.

Being a retired major looks like an ideal thing to me. What a pity you couldn't eternally have been just a retired major.

pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music.

What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.

We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving you have no time for this. You just push these emotions out.

We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.

Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn.

When he sat alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing had changed. His leg still hurt, it was still dark, he was still alone and the self-pity had accomplished nothing.

Remorseless time! fierce spirit of the glass and scythe,--what power can stay him in his silent course, or melt his iron heart with pity!

It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter.

O brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother; Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there; To worship rightly is to love each other, Each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer.

Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.

It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation.

We pity people too often for the wrong reasons.

Pity is a really odd thing with abused women. You don't want anyone to think that you feel bad - even though you might.

1. Find a subject you care about. 2. Do not ramble, though. 3. Keep it simple. 4. Have the guts to cut. 5. Sound like yourself. 6. Say what you mean to say. 7. Pity the readers.

I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa.

I've seen your stormy seas and stormy women, And pity lovers rather more than seamen.

There is a passion of reverence, almost of pity, mingling with the love of an honest man for a pure girl, which makes it the most exquisite, perhaps, of all human sentiments.

I do pity unlearned gentlemen on a rainy day.

I pity anybody who has to spend a day with me.

Laughter is the great antidote for self-pity, maybe a specific for the malady, yet probably it does tend to dry one's feelings out a little, as if by exposing them to a vigorous wind.

I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions.

Self-pity makes people callous.

Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity.

Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more.

New York City gritty committee pity the fool that act shitty in the midst of the calm, the witty.

Pity is the feeling of well-intentioned people who are unable to act.

It is better to arouse envy than pity.

Self-pity is the simplest luxury.

The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy.

But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.