Do Not Pity The Dead Quotes

#1. Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.

J.K. Rowling

#2. Do not pity the dead, Harry.

J.K. Rowling

#3. Be like a river in generosity and giving help. Be like a sun in tenderness and pity. Be like night when covering other's faults. Be like a dead when furious and angry. Be like earth in modesty and humbleness. Be like a sea in tolerance. Be as you are or as you look like.

Rumi

#4. And therefore I looked down into the great pity of a person's life on this earth. I don't mean that we all end up dead, that's not the great pity. I mean that he couldn't tell me what he was dreaming, and I couldn't tell him what was real.

Denis Johnson

#5. When you get to the end of the road and feel like you've arrived at a place where you don't want to be, for pity sakes, turn around, back up and move in a different direction. There's no road in life that is a dead end unless you stop there permanently.

Toni Sorenson

#6. I have this burning desire to get out there and do my best. It's as if I'm keeping it all in a little bottle, and it's all going to come out when I do the best I'm capable of doing.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#7. His name was Theo.

Cinda Williams Chima

#8. And people loved me. I was no longer the pity case (with, how weird, the dead sister). I was the pretty girl (with, how sad, the dead sister). And so I was popular.

Gillian Flynn

#9. Thus spoke the devil to me, once on a time: "Even God has his hell: it is his love for man". And lately did I hear him say these words: "God is dead: of his pity for man has God died".

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. A portal is a transitionary device of sight or sound that functions as a sort of third gravitating body between the this and the that, pulling us toward itself, allowing us to bridge into the unknown from the known.

Roy H. Williams

#11. [Her] love and tenderness ... gave me the faith in love that enabled me to face my dead at last and write this play-write it with deep pity and understanding and forgiveness for all the four haunted Tyrones.

Eugene O'Neill

#12. Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil

Dante Alighieri

#13. Constance: Tell me, what happened to William's little maid? I never saw her again after that dinner.
Mary Maceachran: Elsie?
She's gone.
Constance: Oh, it's a pity, really. I thought it was a good idea to have someone in the house who is actually sorry he's dead.

Julian Fellowes

#14. When I went back home to Seattle after filming 'Dune' in Mexico, I thought, 'Did this really happen?'

Kyle MacLachlan

#15. If Arsenal don't finish third, they might not finish in third place.

Alvin Martin

#16. If a man isn't being nice when you're out, all you have to do is remain polite and then go home early.

Sherry Argov

#17. You state here that you believe your daughter, Amy, is no longer with you; that the girl living in your house - who looks and sounds exactly like Amy - is not in fact your daughter. Is this correct? Is this still the case?

A. Ashley Straker

#18. 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

#19. Thus spoke the devil to me once: "God too has his hell: it is his love of man." ... And most recently I heard him speak this word: "God is dead: God died of his pity for man." - On the Pitying

Friedrich Nietzsche

#20. Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead.

William Collins

#21. life is a gift and it's meant for the living, and we dishonor our dead by squandering that gift in favor of the destructiveness of our self-pity.

John Turner

#22. It's annoying when people do that so-called comedians impression of me when it's stupid nonsense.

Craig David

#23. In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth.

Roland Allen

#24. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things have befallen you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You

Cheryl Strayed

#25. It is a pity that ... the majority of feminists and their allies have stuck to the dead ground of "Me Decade" possessive individualism, an ideology that has more in common than it admits with the prehistoric right, which it claims to oppose but has in fact encouraged.

Christopher Hitchens

#26. It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity! Or remorse or fear and it absolutely will not stop! ... ever ... until you are dead!

James Cameron

#27. In this place piety lives where pity is dead.

Dante Alighieri

#28. I could not pity her, for I knew now what had become of her child, and she was better dead.

Bram Stoker

#29. We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

Blaise Pascal

#30. Tracy looked at me with affectionate pity. "You feel alive. Regular people feel dead."
"I have new batteries in.

Cate Tiernan

#31. Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.
Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary and broken of heart.

Mark Twain

#32. The mourner does not pity the dead . He pities himself for having lost the living .

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#33. War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.

Tim O'Brien

#34. As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity.

Ernst Toller

#35. Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn't the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn't deserve my own pity.

Chris Cleave

#36. It was not merely that his brother was dead. His brain, too young to realize the full paradox, wondered with an obscure self- pity why it was that the pulse of his brother's fear went on and on, when Francis was now where he had always been told there was no more terror and no more
darkness.

Graham Greene

#37. And all the while one spirit uttered this,
The other one did weep so, that, for pity,
I swooned away as if I had been dying,
And fell, even as a dead body falls.

Dante Alighieri