Pity Quotes
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I love everybody and pity everybody.
— Leo Tolstoy
Pity is a useless emotion
— Jackson Pearce
Nothing is so binding as pity.
— Alice Tisdale Hobart
Tragedy is an imitation not just of a complete action, but of events that evoke pity and fear.
— Aristotle.
But God considers the sins of unforgiveness, anger, hatred, self-pity, lovelessness, and revenge to be just as bad as any others.
— Stormie O'martian
We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I don't know, I'm kinda busy. I've got a pity party scheduled for eight o'clock followed by wallowing at nine.
— Mia Sheridan
The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at a keyhole. It is a pity for such that the practice is dishonorable.
— Sophie Swetchine
Its a cold comfort to have people pity you.
— Heather Davis
If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.
— George Bernard Shaw
Today is like yesterday and tomorrow will be the same as today. God, help us! Take pity of us!
— Alexei Nikolaevich
Concern is a thin hair on the head of pity.
— Lisa Genova
I can learn to pity a fool as I'm the worst of allAnd I can't stop feeling sorry for myself — Fall Out Boy
She would prove to everyone she could do everything. She wouldn't let her disability be an excuse, wouldn't give anyone reason to pity her.
— Liz Grace Davis
Almost all sadness comes from feeling sorry for oneself.
— Marty Rubin
All she felt was pity, and pity was death to desire
— George R R Martin
However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity.
— Herman Melville
Try to avoid complaints. Self-pity even when legitimate never fails to undermine your strength.— Mariane Pearl
It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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. — William Shakespeare
When your fear touches someone's pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone's pain, it become compassion.
— Stephen Levine
Do not pity yourself. If you wallow in self-pity, life will be an endless nightmare.
— Kafka Asagiri
A pity you were not born a woman in this life, Little King of Lesser Land, for you seek only to please and to be admired by all.
— Sharon Kay Penman
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Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest.
— Francis Beaumont
Compassion is not helpless
pity, but an
awareness and
determination
that demands
action. — Dalai Lama
It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up.
— W. Somerset Maugham
I love pity parties. I wish I'd brought hats - Christian
— Richelle Mead
If I gave you a pity position it wouldn't be in my office.
— Janet Evanovich
It's a pity you didn't know when you started your game of murder, that I was playing, too.
— Robb White
You'll do well, if you don't mire in self-pity. Self-pity only gets you more of the same. Don't waste time on it.
— Robin Hobb
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
I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel pity for my psychopaths, because I do.
— Ruth Rendell
It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian.
— Manfred Von Richthofen
Pity is nary a friend you want to invite, nor an acquaintance you would accompany.
— Euphrates Arnaut Moss
Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors.
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.
— Dave Matthews
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
— Don Marquis
Time to stop crying, time to get her act together and do something. Time to move beyond the pity party.
— Lisa McMann
What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
— Joseph Addison
It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.
— Vincent Van Gogh
It will be a great pity if any feeling of jealousy or egotism gain ground amongst you.
— Swami Vivekananda
Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
How often we all do so and what a pity it is that when morning comes and tomorrow is today we so frequently wake up feeling quite differently
— Susan Coolidge
There was no room in his life for Marta, and none in her life for him; but it was a pity, all the same.
— Josephine Tey
To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.
— Herman Melville
I pity people who do not care for Society. They are poorer for the oblation they do not make.
— Elizabeth Bowen
There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.
— Honore De Balzac
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
— Margot Asquith
It changed my whole outlook. I lost a decade to self-pity, and the next thing I knew I was turning 40.
— Chris Hardwick
Yet, ironically, it is her very wretchedness that makes me pity her so. I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't know what to do!
— Christopher Pike
Supplication is to implore God for mercy and compassion, to have pity upon you or to grant you the request given and expect that He will do it.
— Robin Bertram
Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.
— Julia Cameron
Pity us, yes, but we are brave, she thought, and wild, more life in us than we can bear, the fire infolding itself within us.
— Marilynne Robinson
Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's.
— Jonathan Tropper
Give me pity.Flash.
Give me another chance.
Flash. — Chuck Palahniuk
If I wanted pity, I got it because I'm illegitimate. And when I didn't want it I was mean and nasty.
— Ethel Waters
It's a pity that the rich have more freedom to hang or drown themselves than the rest of us Christians.
— William Shakespeare
Of all the well-meant emotions pity is the cruelest to share.
— Joan Slonczewski
Pity that child who was born near Rouen,His only crime, to arrive deformed. — E.A. Bucchianeri
The house you live in will never fall down, if you pity the stranger who stands at your door.
— Gordon Lightfoot
I pity the foo who kills all the Jews.
— Ryan Boudinot
Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner, there ain't no hiding place from the Father of Creation.
— Bob Marley
Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
— Eckhart Tolle
He is momentarily filled with a kind of pity for his son. What a task lies ahead of him: to learn literally everything.
— Maggie O'Farrell
Self-pity is better than none.
— Phyllis Diller
Although, at times, self-pity can feel strangely comforting, when it becomes too comfortable, you'll never leave.
— Charles F. Glassman
If you realize that those who do mean things are psychologically ill, your feelings of anger will turn to feelings of pity.
— Peace Pilgrim
When one has suffered or fears suffering, one pities those who suffer; but when one is suffering, one pities only oneself.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I learn to pity woes so like my own.
— John Dryden
Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Someone's having a pity party and didn't invite the rest of us.
— Christopher Healy