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It's a pity we can't play in two or three days as I like to play straight away after a bad game — Jose Mourinho

Que bonito es el mundo; Lastima es que yo me muera." "How beautiful is the world; It's a pity that I must die. — William Carlsen

The monkey's face had more emotions than a human's: curiosity, pity, exhaustion, like he'd already seen too much. Danny had to look away. — Jennifer Egan

It's a pity you are a torturer," Ultan said. "You might have been a philosopher. — Gene Wolfe

If there is one thing worse than self-pity, it was other people's pity. — C.J. Duggan

Some arrogant feel very confident that they are the best.
That's pity. Much better men let them feel so for a reason. — Toba Beta

How ugly most people are! It's a pity they don't try to make up for it by being agreeable. — W. Somerset Maugham

Life has to end. What a pity! Sometimes, when one is alone, the universe presses itself into one's hands: a plethora of joy, an organized plentitude. — Joanna Russ

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

A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

God's pity! How long will it feel like burning? — Anne Carson

However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. — Herman Melville

You did tell me what a very superior sort of mind your friend has. What a pity he was born trapped in a man's body. — Laurie R. King

Pity's tears are spontaneous. — Anna Cora Mowatt

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

That he's mad, 'tis true,
'tis true 'tis pity,
And pity 'tis, 'tis true
- a foolish figure, — William Shakespeare

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

It's a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel prize. — Stephen Hawking

A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's. — Friedrich Schiller

I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing. — Ferdinand Mount

One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential. — V.S. Pritchett

One grows out of pity when it's useless. — Albert Camus

It's a pity that there's such a negative connotation about paying for sex. — Annie Sprinkle

God give me anything but a good man's pity. — Kresley Cole

It's a pity that virgins can't be issued with some kind of barcode. Think of the problems that would have saved you. — Sara Craven

Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity. — Esa-Pekka Salonen

Nora, your self-pity monitor is beeping, it's telling me you're feeling sorry for yourself over something trivial and need to get a life. — L. H. Cosway

Pity is woman's sweetest charm. — Honore De Balzac

I'm commandeering some shorts." A drawer squeaked. "Oh, for pity's sake. You wear tighty-whities. With superheroes? — Pam Godwin

I write my miserable songs. I write songs about disgust and self-pity. We're all going to have bummer moments. That's not the stuff I choose to share. — Jason Mraz

Damn it, Lettie. Marry me. For pity's sake, marry me and put me out of my misery. — Juliet Landon

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society. — Charles Dickens

Pity sidesteps complexity in favor of narratives that we're comfortable with, reducing the nuances of a person's experience to a sound bite. — Phil Klay

O pity the dead that are dead, but cannot make
the journey, still they moan and beat
against the silvery adamant walls of life's exclusive city. — D.H. Lawrence

Fabulous. Toleration is the key word. It's a pity few people understand this. — Cristiane Serruya

To some men there's no poison worse than a gift, none worse than a measure of pity. I would know. — Mark Lawrence

Satan exploits pain by making it the central focus of the man's (or woman's) thoughts and attitudes. — Erwin W. Lutzer

So you would have me throw Shazi to the wolves?"
"Shazi?" Jalal's grin widened. "Honestly, I pity the wolves. — Renee Ahdieh

If brains was black powder he couldn't blow his own nose. It's a pity the things you see when you ain't got a gun. — Stephen King

It's not pity, Isabelle. It's survival. I'm not letting you go through this alone. I'll see you at eleven. — Melyssa Winchester

It's a pity he cannot kill himself with drink. — Emily Bronte

Happiness is often only a pity for one's own misfortune. — Albert Camus

The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he's dying don't give him pity for others. — Tennessee Williams

I sincerely pity the poor man you marry. I doubt he'll have a moment's peace. — Heather King

Self-pity ? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage. — E. M. Forster

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little. — Rachel Carson

It's all a chase, and when the race is done, I think I pity women chaste who run. — Patrick Rothfuss

OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES
It is a pity that we often succeed in our endeavors to deceive each other.
~Empress Irene~ — Kris Waldherr

Unfortunately, in the environment, I don't see as much willingness to invest heavily in R&D as I do in consumer technology. And that's a pity. — Ramez Naam

It's hard to feel hurt or frightened when you're flooded with pity. — Lindy West

Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft contemplative, and kind. — Walter Scott

There's no good in moping girl, there's work to be done... Have you forgotten, nobody likes a person who feels sorry for herself. — Ruth Downie

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

It's a pity to shoot the pianist when the piano is out of tune. — Rene Coty

George Eliot tenderly carried in her heart the burdens of our race. She looked through pity's tears upon the faults and frailties of mankind. — Robert Green Ingersoll

A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

I'm going to do my thing and if you react a certain way - with pity or with anger - that's up to you. — Jennifer Lawrence

Pity," he said, smiling. "I'd heard about you, but I had no idea just how beautiful ... — Latrivia S. Nelson

That's the funny thing about pity, Saint. It's condescending by default. — Wildbow

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

To be cold and incapable of pity is one thing; to have compassion and use it only when it's convenient is nothing less than evil. — Stacey Jay

It's a pity we don't whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading. — Halldor Laxness

It's a pity I flew only once. A space flight is like a drug - once you experience it, you can't think of anything else. — Gherman Titov

Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are. — Yoko Ono

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth. — Vincent Van Gogh

What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead. — Fanny Fern

It's a pity you didn't know when you started your game of murder, that I was playing, too. — Robb White

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

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. — Phoebe Cary

It's a pity that the rich have more freedom to hang or drown themselves than the rest of us Christians. — William Shakespeare

Someone's having a pity party and didn't invite the rest of us. — Christopher Healy

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

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

I wish wearing flat-irons on our heads would keep us from growing up. But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats, - more's the pity! — Louisa May Alcott

I drive an American car. It's a Chrysler. That's not an endorsement. It's more like a cry for pity. — Michael Moore

Is it not a pity when some stylistic subtlety is lost without trace by the reader's inattention? — David Richards

It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are finished.
Mrs. Miracle — Debbie Macomber

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer. — Charlotte Bronte

Baby, in a world without pity Do you think what I'm askin's too much I just want to feel you in my arms Share a little of that Human Touch. — Bruce Springsteen

Her own misery filled her heart - there was no room in it for other people's sorrow. — George Eliot

Some will accuse me of being judgmental. Thank you. And proud of it. You wreck a kid's life, I have no pity for you. — Dean Koontz

It's a pity that the land of great leaders like Chandragupta Maurya, Ashoka and Akbar, has to be led by a dummy PM. - Shruti Ranjan — Tuhin A. Sinha

For pity's sake, don't start meeting troubles halfway. — Teresa Of Avila

Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness. — Willa Cather

It's a pity you didn't have a little more brandy. It might have made you more agreeable! — Noel Coward

Life ain't all beer and skittles, and more's the pity; but what's the odds, so long as you're happy? — George Du Maurier

In my heart's most secret place,
I pity them as angels do. — Sara Teasdale

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

It's a pity so few of us are allowed to chose thectime and manner of our death — Kirsten Beyer

And the greatest pity that the obscure lgala language is a borrowed and stolen mixture of the WaZoBia. — S.A. David

I never wanted anyone's pity. — Jake Weber

Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning. — Neale Donald Walsch

Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you didn't. — Jim Rohn

I've been through hell in this life, yet risen up and survived.
I felt pity after heard that boy's preaching about motivation. — Toba Beta

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