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Damned thing, self-consciousness, like a pitiful stray dog tagging you down the road - so hard to shake off. So easy to get back.
— Barbara Kingsolver
It is pitiful to see men putting their trust in something lower than themselves;
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
When he wasn't cutting the pitiful figure of a mourning widower, he was being a downright prick.
— Tessa Dare
Compared to the spoken word, a picture is a pitiful thing, indeed.
— Charles Osgood
Billy's Christ died horribly. He was pitiful. So it goes.
— Kurt Vonnegut
The only thing more pitiful than a middle-aged punk is a white Rastafarian. I did meet one of those once, and he was lonelier than I was.
— Louis De Bernieres
No matter how pathetic or pitiful, every human is fated to have one moment in their lives in which they can change their own destiny.
— Takayuki Yamaguchi
Even in these straits our life is not as pitiful as you'd think, so long as we find joy in every hour.
— Sophocles
I lay my head on the railroad track, waitin' on the Double E. But the train don't run by here no more, poor, poor, pitiful me.
— Warren Zevon
The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won't I? in pitiful indecision.
— Joanne Harris
The ruby droplets absorbed by the pitiful tourniquet.
— Solange Nicole
In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it.
— Margaret Halsey
One thing is for sure, we can't be powerful and pitiful at the same time.
— Sandra M. Michelle
I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.
— Julian Barnes
A gentleman sitting in spectacles before an old ledger, and writing down pitiful remembrances of his own condition, is a quaint and ridiculous object.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.
— Edmund Burke
Ignorance is pitiful! If you are ignorant and stupid, you are sick - white, black, green, I don't care.
— Willie Wells
I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers.
— Jimmy Swaggart
Don't blame god for your pitiful condition, its a test that god wants you to excel.
— Srinivas Shenoy
Tears are useless things; tiny droplets of salt infused water, insignificant and pitiful.
— Pippa DaCosta
Among these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
— Pliny The Elder
Drowning is not so pitiful as the attempt to rise.
— Emily Dickinson
Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Complaint is. more contemptible than pitiful.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
We've all got our own brand of problems. You can be pitiful or powerful. Take your pick.
— Joyce Meyer
No future triumph or metamorphosis can justify the pitiful blighting of a human being against his will.
— Peter Wessel Zapffe
Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray!
— Philibert Joseph Roux
You can't be pitiful AND powerful.
— Joyce Meyer
Now I am capable of youth, but not capable of few years - that is the pitiful thing.
— Helen Westley
When you see fair hair Be pitiful.
— George Eliot
He had no affection left in his life - only the pitiful mockery of it in the camaraderie of vice.
— Upton Sinclair
Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.
— Jane Austen
It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Air freshener is man's pitiful attempt to have his food smell as good, after digestion, as they did, before ingestion.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are.
— Tove Jansson
Leaders goal: Don't be afraid of vulnerability & transparency, (without being pitiful). People respond to authenticity.
— Brian Houston
101. I may find peace with in the emptiness, how pitiful.
— Maynard James Keenan
It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.
— Publilius Syrus
An atheist waving a cross at a vampire was a truly pitiful sight.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
We do not have the right to make the name of God look bad by our pitiful and impoverished existence
— Sunday Adelaja
if we have fallen so far as to need an avatar, an undeniable manifestation of a god, to show us our way, then we are pitiful creatures indeed.
— R.A. Salvatore
The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding.
— Gene Tunney
Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?
— Joe Hill
What a pitiful mass of dangerous nothing
— Charles Bukowski
Uh woman by herself is uh pitiful thing, she was told over and again.
— Zora Neale Hurston
I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.
— George Washington
I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'
— Dolly Parton
You are never as great or as pitiful as you think you are.
— Francesca Zappia
I'm not that pitiful little girl you bullied last year.
— Rachel E. Carter
The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.
— Arabella Weir
A face painted in a picture gives a pitiful parody of life ... but a painted surface lives.
— Kazimir Malevich
We have to have a warrior mindset and be engaged at all times. If we are going to move mountains, we cannot be pitiful and powerful at the same time.
— Sandra M. Michelle
You see we do, yet see you but our handsAnd this the bleeding business they have done:
Our hearts you see not; they are pitiful — William Shakespeare
Hopeless. Freak. Elephant. Pitiful
— Donna Cooner
My life is a pitiful, mechanical thing without a past, like a little wind-up car, ready to run in any direction someone points me.
— Barbara Kingsolver
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
— Maya Angelou
Strong women don't play victim, don't make themselves look pitiful, & don't point fingers. They stand & they deal.
— Mandy Hale
It's pitiful to have a life in which junk food is awarded the same high status as sex.
— Sue Grafton
And lips say God be pitiful, who never said, God be praised.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God.
— Paul David Washer
How pitiful is an intelligence used only to make excuses to quieten the conscience.
— Ignazio Silone
Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.
— Indira Gandhi
Is the most pitiful word in history, and it's a lame excuse,
— Cameron Jace
There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self.
— Philip Sidney
Being able to restrain my emotions isn't a great victory - it's the pitiful proof of lost love.
— Amy Tan
The most pitiful human ailment is a birdseed heart.
— Wilson Mizner
Bernie let out the most pitiful wail heard since that god-forsaken day in 1942 when Bambi's mom was shot.
— Fred Barnett
