Pity Quotes

I pity anyone who can't laugh. There must be something wrong with their religion or their lives. The devil can't laugh.

But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?

I have found that the best cure for self pity is to do something to help someone else.

Pity makes a thin drink, indeed.

Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me.

Self-pity is a sin. It is a form of living suicide.

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

Just listen to your instincts. Don't talk to someone or start a relationship out of pity.

Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn't the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn't deserve my own pity.

It changed my whole outlook. I lost a decade to self-pity, and the next thing I knew I was turning 40.

Flaubert was right when he said that our use of language is like a cracked kettle on which we bang out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we need to move the very stars to pity.

Yet, ironically, it is her very wretchedness that makes me pity her so. I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't know what to do!

Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.

For a song I was bought Now I lie when I talk With a careful eye on the cue card. Onto a stage I was pushed, With my sorrow well rehearsed. So give me all your pity and your money, now (all of it).

one pities most those who loved, and still died. Only those who love, dread death.

You Nazis! I pity the devil when you boys start arriving in bunches.

Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.

Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil

I had to work in one of the most beautiful ski resorts in the world for almost three weeks. Pity me.

Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity.

I'm either a mutant or a cripple, and I refuse to be a cripple. People pity cripples, but they're afraid of mutants [...] Fear implies respect.

None who has known the charity of wine, Its pity, the cool logic of its spell Will waver in his loyalty, or dwell In any heaven where the grape lacks a shrine.

It's hard to play a continuing character like Loomis for nearly 11 years and simply wash your hands of him. It seems a pity.

Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth.

Self-pity? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage.

Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.

O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the mask of bliss, And so be envy'd, and be wretched too!

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

I pity people who do not care for Society. They are poorer for the oblation they do not make.

Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity.

God made poor woman with no heart, But gave her skill, and tact, and art, And so she lives, and plays her part. We must not blame, but pity her.

Love is the only thing that pays for birth, Or makes death welcome. Oh, dear God above This beautiful but sad, perplexing earth, Pity the hearts that know--or know not--Love!

What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!

Pity is exhaustible. What a terrible discovery!

Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.

If I wanted pity, I got it because I'm illegitimate. And when I didn't want it I was mean and nasty.

Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.

I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.

Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others. It is a delicate foresight of the troubles into which we may fall.

Pity enlarges the heart.

Did I kill him?” I said. “No, miss,” said Robert. “Pity.

Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave.

The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds.

Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.

If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.

Christianity is called the religion of pity.

It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.

Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.

In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.