Pity Quotes

I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.

Wickedness never rests easily so, in a way, one might almost feel pity for the wicked, for they are ...

Sometimes I almost pity them. I think I have a freedom they cannot understand. No insult, no blame c...

When you find yourself overpowered as it were by melancholy the best way is to go out and do some...

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

I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling wh...

Whenever she saw in others an advantage, however trivial, which she herself lacked, she would persua...

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermit-tent gloom.

Grumbling is the death of love.

Misery is a communicable disease.

Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have rest...

I was astonished by his complete lack of self-pity. Morrie, who could no longer dance, swim, bathe, ...

You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be...

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the surviva...

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.

In the strangely simple economy of the world people only get what they give, and to those who have n...

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

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

No weekends for the gods now. Warsflicker, earth licks its open sores,fresh breakage, fresh promotio...

Look at that crowd', he said disgustedly. 'They think it's a circus.''And not a single coin are they...

When any fit of gloominess or perversion of mind lays hold upon you make it a rule not to publish...

Despair is criminal.

To hear complaints is wearisome to the wretched and the happy alike.

Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you--these are unpleasant feelings. But...

A sight to touch e’en hatred’s self with pity.

Being sorry for myself is a luxury I can't afford.

Never give way to melancholy resist it steadily for the habit will encroach.

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!

Never give way to melancholy resist it steadily for the habit will encroach.

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!

I don't ask for your pity, but just for your understanding – not even that – no. Just for some recog...

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves t...

It was a sordid scene. Philip leaned over the rail, staring down, and he ceased to hear the music. T...

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds...

Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than child...

Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.

By Allah, how _thankful_ he is (_yes, madam, one moment, madam_), how _gladdened_ by the thought tha...

Old age is no place for sissies.

Why do you decry the world we live in? There are good people in it. Isn't muddle a better breeding g...

Murder can sometimes seem justified, but it is murder all the same. You are truthful and clear-minde...

The pity is not that there is a myth of Sylvia Plath but that the myth is not simply that of an enor...

This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if ...

The rich never have a chance of being neighborly to their equals. The best they can do is feel mawki...

Hard times' is a phrase the English love to use, when speaking of Africa. And it is easy to forget t...

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

This is pity,” he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be some...

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

They say God appeared in history and used it for his purposes, but if that was so he had no pity for...

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

You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He h...

She expected no judgement and wanted no pity.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough Without e...

I got the blues thinking of the future so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it c...

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a di...

In all our lives, however, there are many days when we die a little, when we are wounded by loss or ...

The cure for grief is motion.

A pity to survive night flights over St. Georges Channel only to crack my skull falling from a ladde...

You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of...

Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to fin...

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you...

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conqu...

Alas, where in the world have there been greater follies than with the compassionate?And what in the...

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The c...

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

Some things take so longBut how do I explainWhen not too many peopleCan see we're all the sameAnd be...

Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute sil...

It is when suffering finds a voice andsets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voic...

However angry I was with him, however much I wanted to humiliate Terry, I suddenly saw such humanity...

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it we can never do anything wise in this world.

This life is not for complaint but for satisfaction.

To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.

So true it is, and so terrible, too, that up to a certain point the thought or sight of misery enlis...

To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.

What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!'Pity? It was Pity that...

Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in h...

Such is the pure movement of nature prior to all reflection. Such is the force of natural pity, whic...