Pity Quotes

There's a lot that you can be And ain't it a pity But its alright to smile back at me

Many are those who pity others while being blind to their own misfortunes.

I have a quite feeling of pity for all those who don't know chess; almost like I am sorry for those who never learned to love. Chess, like love and music, has the ability of making people happy.

Pity that the only way to paradise is in a hearse.

I pity the Hindu who does not see the beauty in Jesus Christ's character. I pity the Christian who does not reverence the Hindu Christ.

Two things control man's character; Strength and Pity

I don't ask for your pity, but just your understanding - no, not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.

Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity.

Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye.

pity runs its course. An hour comes when no hand but your own can build your future.

Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.

You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.

To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.

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

Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.

Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you--these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine Dark Ones.

Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.

I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.

Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drinks all around.

A pity to survive night flights over St. Georges Channel only to crack my skull falling from a ladder.

... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!

Self-pity shortens your life.

But the day I can't shrug off a twinge of self-pity, is the day I'm washed up for keeps.

...trade the life of self pity, that I was living, for a life of purpose! - Rebekah -

All pity is self-pity.

Tomorrow, more's the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.

Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.

Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated.

At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

Self-pity does not appreciate pedantry.

in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!

nothing is so binding as pity.

Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!

Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate. I hate murderously.

He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.

Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.

The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady; one can pity someone who is suffering ; someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.

But human nature cannot be content on a diet of honey and if there is nothing in one's life that requires pity, one must invent it; for to go through life unpitied would be an unthinkable loss.

How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!

Pity's tears are spontaneous.

Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be thrown away upon him.

Pity is like eating mustard without beef.

Religion is an edifice built upon the dream of a beautiful world... Pity the dreamers are rarely builders.

Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn't do more.

kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.

Pity and forbearance should characterize all acts of justice.

I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.

You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.

What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.