Pity Quotes

There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one day he suffocated through his excessive pity.

Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.

The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment!

Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.

We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there is an accompanying surge in those hostile sensations.

I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love.

I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.

We are so not breaking out the violins and pity partying.

No it isn't very pretty, what a town without pity can do.

Youth, what a pity to waste it on the young.

If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.

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

Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.

It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.

Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.

Self-pity is the campsite of self-defeat; it is a dark refuge for those parts of us that would rather wallow in what cannot be than dare to explore what is possible.

When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough.

Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might be a handle to take hold of.

There are those without decency who must be fought without hesitation, without pity.

What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws!

Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous.

When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and pity, and wonder.

Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.

Pity is woman's sweetest charm.

O, if there be any kind of life most sad, and deepest in the scale of pity, it is the dry, cold impotence of one, who has honestly set to the work of his own self-redemption.

I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.

It was quite life-affirming, for me, that I felt hat kind of pity for [Margaret Thatcher], because I didn't think I ever would.

God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does.

...love and pity for hell's occupants will not enter our hearts.

Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Éowyn!

I wished to be loved by another. But I desire no man's pity.

I think the great unspoken theme in noir fiction is male self-pity. It pervades noir movies.

You will surely smile with me when I say, 'Thank God one can still recognise self-pity as such and not give it any greater dignity than just that.

His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle.

And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

I write my miserable songs. I write songs about disgust and self-pity. We’re all going to have bummer moments. That’s not the stuff I choose to share.

A flood of emotions rushes into me. Pain and anger. Sadness and pity. But most surprising of all, hope.

But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity). [Fr., Mais un pripon d'enfant (cet age est sans pitie).

Only fools pity survivors their scars and you should never kowtow to fools

Do I have my days when I've thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely.

It's not a problem. There are people out there with much worse problems than mine."-Cynthia "Doesn't make yours any more fun to bear."-Liza "No. But it does help with the self-pity."- Cynthia

I'm going to do my thing and if you react a certain way - with pity or with anger - that's up to you.

Pity, unlike hate, can be boxed and put away.

Showing you pity doesn't do you any favors.

Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author.

Of all the well-meant emotions pity is the cruelest to share.

Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self pity and pain or sorrow.

Kind pity chokes my spleen.