Pity Quotes

Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's.

Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others.

self-pity is better than none.

Self-pity - it's the only pity that counts.

One grows out of pity when it's useless.

Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred.

But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.

The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.

You shouldn't wallow in self-pity. But it's OK to put your feet in it and swish them around a little.

Pity swells the tide of love.

Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.

In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.

When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.

It is a pity that you students aren't fully aware of the luxury and abundance in which you live.

Was it for crimes that I had done He groaned upon the tree? Amazing pity! Grace unknown! And love beyond degree!

Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.

Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison.

The unfortunate do not pity the unfortunate.

I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else.

It’s hard to feel hurt or frightened when you’re flooded with pity.

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats - more's the pity.

Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.

Pity is love in undress.

Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness.

To be wise was to be above joy and sorrow, fear and pity, ambition and humiliation. It was to hate nothing and to love nothing, and above all to be utterly indifferent to the love and hate of others.

How’s Her Royal Bitchiness?” “Alive.” “Pity.

Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you're hurting.

Give plenty of what is given to you, And listen to pity's call. Don't think the little you give is great, And the much you get is small.

If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear to be the objects of pity?

What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.

[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate.

. . . a pity I never had children. But you're wrong. . . . I have . . . thousands of them . . . thousands of them . . . and all boys!

Pity the planet, all joy gone from this sweet volcanic cone

I literally feel pity for a lot of the stupid idiots that I have to deal with.

Pity those who don't feel anything at all

The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.

the heart that is truly virtuous is ever inclined to pity and forgive the errors of its fellow-creatures.

Pity does not get you aid. Admiration at your refusal to give in does.

I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce scenes symbolized by the very slow washing of dishes.

Love does nothing but make you weak! It turns you into an object of pity and derision-a mewling pathetic creature no more fit to live than a worm squirming on the pavement after a hard summer rain.

Pity is akin to love.

Are we not to pity and supply the poor, though they have no relation to us? No relation? That cannot be. The Gospel styles them all our brethren.

Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.

Surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity.

Were't not for laughing, I should pity him.

The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.

Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.