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I love everybody and pity everybody. — Leo Tolstoy

If we have a relationship with Jesus Christ and believe the Bible to be the Word of God, then we have no room for wallowing in the swamp of self-pity. — Lois Mowday Rabey

Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity. — Walter Raleigh

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God. — William Law

One thing I found out then was that pity is a form of love and, actually, its highest expression.
A Tale of Two Sisters — Isaac Bashevis Singer

It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men. — Marilynne Robinson

Pity is the most destructive of the passions and unlike love and anger, it never passes. — Lydia Ginzburg

Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God! — Charles Dickens

If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing. — George Bernard Shaw

Transcendence is realising that people do not deserve pity or love or compassion. People deserve contempt. — Christos Tsiolkas

There is no word for the emotion between pity and love, or for the one between longing and sorrow. — Carrie Anne Noble

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

Love was not the point and pity was a poor man's pride. — Holly Lynn Payne

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Sacrifices by believers should not be done out of pity — Sunday Adelaja

A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him. — Henry David Thoreau

A man could love only what he respected, not pitied. — Ninotchka Rosca

I sighed, because that's what unrequited love made you do. Sigh with self-pity. — Sariah Wilson

While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of love. — William Butler Yeats

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

Truth is one. It doesn't change. It covers all things which touch the heart - honor and pride and pity and justice and courage and love. — William Faulkner

For just this moment, he wanted her to see him for who he was, without the pity he knew she'd feel when she found out the truth. — Travis Neighbor Ward

There is no creature loves me;
And if I die, no soul will pity me. — William Shakespeare

Understand that I am even ignored by the opposite sex on the internet. — Vann Chow

No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man. — Louisa May Alcott

I love my black hair, but some imes I'd like to be blond, but I don't think it suits Asian girl ... What a pity! — Ming Xi

Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

It's such a pity," I told her "that you were so afraid of love. I could've shown you landscapes behind my lightning & poetry. — Cheri Bauer

Pity is a start, my friend, a foundation on which to build a palace - a palace of love. — J.K. Rowling

When your fear touches someone's pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone's pain, it become compassion. — Stephen Levine

You said: "most days, I pity you more than I love you". I just love you. — Trista Mateer

If the spark doesn't come, that's a pity; but we do not read the classics out of duty or respect, but only out of love. — Italo Calvino

If Pity come as Pity, bid her stay; But if in guise of Love, chase her away. — Richard B. Garnett

What's more certain than anything is that your pity is even stronger than my love! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Love and pity for hell's occupants will not enter our hearts. — J.I. Packer

Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest. — Francis Beaumont

For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him. — Halldor Laxness

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

When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me — Jacqueline Carey

Charity isn't about pity, it is about love. — Mother Teresa

It is in the book of man, not the book of god, that we must look for examples of heroism, love, pity, justice, truth, honor, humanity. — M. M. Mangasarian

His silence hadn't been helplessness - it hadn't even been love. It had been pity. — Mary Karr

I love pity parties. I wish I'd brought hats - Christian — Richelle Mead

One pities most those who loved, and still died. Only those who love, dread death. — Craig L. Rice

Pity's akin to love; and every thought
Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul. — Thomas Southerne

...I feel pity that she will never fully understand what it is to be loved and forgiven, then loved even more." Pastel Orphans — Gemma Liviero

This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only because they are alive. — Alberto Moravia

Never underestimate the power of a pity fuck, which makes for about ninety percent of women's collective dating history. — Alice Walsh

To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. — William Blake

You ought to pity me 'cause there's always one man to love/ But in the bedroom the size of him's more than enough. — Lady Gaga

A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love. — William Butler Yeats

[b]Viola:[/b] I pity you.
[b]Olivia:[/b] That's a degree to love. — William Shakespeare

Ah, sweet pity. Where would my love life be without it? — Matt Groening

A crisis of self-respect. What makes me feel strong? Being in love and work. I must work. I'm being wasted by self-pity and self-contempt. — Susan Sontag

It was a pity that with his great qualities, his unselfishness and honor, his intelligence and sensibility, he should be so unlovable. — W. Somerset Maugham

Viola: I pity you
Olivia: That's a degree to love — William Shakespeare

Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated. — Albert Camus

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

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love. — Stanley Kubrick

I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Pity is sworn servant unto love: And this be sure, wherever it begin To make the way, it lets your master in. — Willa Cather

Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love. — J.K. Rowling

Pity is love in undress. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Pity swells the tide of love. — Edward Young

All dreams. If there was love or pity for him, it was only in his dreams. — Orson Scott Card

Some things were not possible in this world. Children did not have two parents who refused to love them. One, maybe, but for pity's sake, not two. — Sue Monk Kidd

I wept in self-pity, and because I knew you could never go back. You chose your path, and that was it. — Juliet Marillier

Don't you love your mother, dear?"
"I guess so. A hard, sharp, thorny kind of love that might be pity more than anything else. — Dean Koontz

After everything, you still want to believe that love prevails, that in the end there will be justice. That is an illusion, and I pity you. — Jessica Fortunato

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

I believed she'd gotten past ther hatred of me, turning to pity instead. But how could I make that into love? — Alex Flinn

They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation. — Arthur Helps

I was so full of hate that there was no room in me for such feelings as love, pity, kindness or honor or decency, — Carl Panzram

Sometimes mercy is not a kindness and pity is not love. — Karen Maitland

The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness. — William Makepeace Thackeray

For Mercy has a human heart
Pity, a human face:
And Love, the human form divine,
And Peace, the human dress. — William Blake

It is not love that transforms the world, but pity. — Clara Winter

Pity arises from meeting pain with fear. Compassion comes when you meet it with love. — Stephen Levine

Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love. — Laurell K. Hamilton

He who loves knows it. He who loves not, knows it not.
I pity him and make him no answer. — Jennifer Worth

You think I have no feelings, and that I can do without one bit of love or kindness; but I cannot live so: and you have no pity. — Charlotte Bronte

I feel the deepest, heartfelt pity for any adult who has never been in love. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

Have charity towards all beings. Pity those who are in distress. Love all creatures. Do not be jealous of anyone. Look not to the faults of others. — Swami Vivekananda

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most. — Miguel De Unamuno

But pity was not action. It was not love. Pity, like passion, was no more than a kind of instinct. — Shusaku Endo

As Stephen Levine says, "When your fear touches someone's pain it becomes pity; when your love touches someone's pain, it becomes compassion. — Nina Angela McKissock

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent. — Edward Dahlberg

Pity is like lust ... both like to masquerade as love and it's powerfully hard to know the difference when you're in the throes of it. — Michelle Black

Pity melts the mind to love. — John Dryden

Pity is akin to love. — Thomas Southerne

Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too. — William Blake

Love is ruthless; it doesn't feel sorry for anyone, but it does have compassion. Fear is full of pity; it feels sorry for everyone. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Such a pity gravity only works vertically, I would have drawn you if it was horizontal as well. — Pushpa Rana

A woman's pity often opens the door to love. — Henry Ward Beecher

Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love. — Cornelia Funke

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise — William Shakespeare