Pity Quotes
Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale.
God damn! Drug dealers dealin' to the kiddies, Livin' in the city ain't no pity on the itty-bitty. We try to cry, but still they all die, I try to speak to the youth, and the truth is: they all high.
A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's.
Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.
However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent.
Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.
Generosity is the accompaniment of high birth; pity and gratitude are its attendants.
Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.
Pity the Party without enough woman power - there will always be dreamers and leaders, but the dreams won't come true, nor will the leaders reach their goal, without the ready doers.
The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity.
Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.
Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.
If you realize that those who do mean things are psychologically ill, your feelings of anger will turn to feelings of pity.
I heard an Angel singing; When the day was springing, Mercy, Pity, Peace; Is the world's release.
...long before the child learns to talk properly-and long before it learns to think philosophically-the world will have become a habit. A pity, if you ask me.
For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.
Self-pity is an ignoble emotion, but we all feel it, and the orthodox critical line that it represents some kind of artistic flaw is dubious, a form of emotional correctness.
Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning.
A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.
Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.
A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quicky than reason or logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.
The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.
Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.
Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.
It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.
When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
There are a few things that'll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they've been used several times, they no longer work.
Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual lives like a slowly spreading cancer.
We see how much a man has, and therefore we envy him; did we see how little he enjoys, we should rather pity him.
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.
