Feel Pity Quotes

#1. 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

#2. When I meet a girl, I just sort of do really over-exaggerated terrible dance moves ... a lot of hip movements. I get them laughing, and get them to feel pity for me, and then they like me!

Nicholas D'Agosto

#3. Be thankful you can feel pity and horror at the death of an enemy. The day we cease to care, even for our enemies, is the day we have lost this battle.

Margaret Weis

#4. I literally feel pity for a lot of the stupid idiots that I have to deal with.

Rose McGowan

#5. I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel pity for my psychopaths, because I do.

Ruth Rendell

#6. Feel pity for the person who judged you rudely. For they are selfish in their judgment, trying to make their life feel just a little bit better. It was never about you it was all about them.

Ron Baratono

#7. When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity ... that was a quality God's image carried with it ... when you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination.

Graham Greene

#8. Wickedness never rests easily so, in a way, one might almost feel pity for the wicked, for they are destined to live their lives in fear, in a prison of the heart.

John Connolly

#9. ...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

#10. When I look back at experience [with my father], all I can do is feel pity. You know, how torn he was about how to act, what to say. And it seems an important story to me.

Paul Auster

#11. How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight, whereas a fool declares that it is we who are silly; if it were not so, we should feel pity and not anger.

Blaise Pascal

#12. In the strangely simple economy of the world people only get what they give, and to those who have not enough imagination to penetrate the mere outward of things and feel pity, what pity can be given save that of scorn?

Oscar Wilde

#13. If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.

Abraham Cahan

#14. In the eyes of mercy, no one should have hateful thoughts. Feel pity for the man who is even more at fault. The area and size of mercy is limitless.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#15. You can't be disturbed by anything. There's no emotion involved. You can't feel sorrow, you can't feel pity, there's nothing you feel. The job has to be done.

Mike Tyson

#16. Feel pity for those with insecurities that rest heavy on their shoulders. They'll take every opportunity to negativity judge others. They speak with a sadness in their voice searching for something, anything to make their life feel just a little bit better.

Ron Baratono

#17. What would you do?
Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood and your dreams and all you're leaving behind? Would it hurt? Would it feel like dying? Would you cry, as I did?

Tim O'Brien

#18. I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#19. To feel pity, to be carried away by the pleasure of hearing a clever argument, to listen to the claims of decency are three things that are entirely against the interests of an imperial power.

Thucydides

#20. You stay home and raise daughters, who grow up and get jobs and then feel pity for you, their stay-at-home mothers.

Noah Hawley

#21. I don't feel pity for those, who give up by ending their own lives. They must not be so coward; in fact they are the most powerful people in the world, because everyone is scare of death, and they aren't.

M.F. Moonzajer

#22. He does not feel pity for himself - thus he can successfully develop.

Laozi

#23. 92. Eventually I confess to a friend some details about my weeping - its intensity, its frequency. She says (kindly) that she thinks we sometimes weep in front of a mirror not to inflame self-pity, but because we want to feel witnessed in our despair.

Maggie Nelson

#24. The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.

Criss Jami

#25. Pity, like morphine, does the sick good only at first. It is a means of helping them to feel better, but if you don't get the dose right and know where to stop it becomes a murderous poison.

Stefan Zweig

#26. Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

Millicent Fenwick

#27. You would think,' Aedan said, 'that I'd feel good about this-I've grown while he, my old enemy, has shrunk. Yet all I feel is a terrible ache. I pity him, that he has been called by age to surrender his strength.

Jonathan Renshaw

#28. This was one of those uncomfortable things Luna often said and which made Harry feel a squirming mixture of pity and embarrassment. Before

J.K. Rowling

#29. Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.

Paul Hoffman

#30. Pity those who don't feel anything at all.

Sarah J. Maas

#31. I feel the deepest, heartfelt pity for any adult who has never been in love.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#32. For those constantly full of joy, they sometimes feel a little guilty for always feeling so good. That guilt is compassion: it flies in with an attempt to share one's joy with others who do not have it.

Criss Jami

#33. Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves?

Mason Cooley

#34. People in distress never think that you feel enough.

Samuel Johnson

#35. A friend once told me that she understood pity as 'I'm sorry for you', whereas compassion is 'I feel your pain because I see that you could be me and I could be you'.

Shannon Moroney

#36. Never give anyone permission to hurt your feelings. Always face them by standing up for what is right and you will feel strong. If you do not stand strong, people will pity you, and then you lose something adults call dignity. Never accept pity. No one on earth is better than anyone else.

John J. Siefring

#37. Self-pity is an ignoble emotion, but we all feel it, and the orthodox critical line that it represents some kind of artistic flaw is dubious, a form of emotional correctness.

Nick Hornby

#38. I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful - just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

#39. Although, at times, self-pity can feel strangely comforting, when it becomes too comfortable, you'll never leave.

Charles F. Glassman

#40. Sorrow is permitted human beings, but it is not to be desired if we would be like You, Lord God. For You, who love souls far more purely than we and feel a perfect pity for others, are wounded, yet without sorrow. How can we be like You in this?

Augustine Of Hippo

#41. Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If I must pity, at least I do not want it known; and if I do pity, it is preferably from a distance.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#42. I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.

William Cowper

#43. Everybody who undergoes a death and finds themselves grieving is obsessed with the idea that they can't display self-pity, they have to be strong. Actually there are a lot of reasons why you are going to feel sorry for yourself, but that's your first concern.

Joan Didion

#44. I will never tire of repeating this: what the poor need the most is not pity but love. They need to feel respect for their human dignity, which is neither less nor different from the dignity of any other human being.

Mother Teresa

#45. Warriors are incapable of feeling compassion because they no longer feel sorry for themselves. Without the driving force of self-pity, compassion is meaningless.

Carlos Castaneda

#46. So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or that conflict of inclinations and purposes, he cannot become completely absorbed in the activities and sufferings of the chief characters or feel breathless pity and fear.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#47. One cannot enjoy a proper pity party and feel guilty about it at the same time. That was just a waste of a good pity party.

Melanie Shawn

#48. When we perceive aliens as a joke to be laughed at,
they feel so pity for us on the success of their plans.

Toba Beta

#49. I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

Cate Tiernan

#51. If you repeat your negative memories in your mind and feel self-pity, then YOU are both the abuser and the victim - not those who wronged you in the past. Your present and future will be happier if you take control of your thoughts.

Maddy Malhotra

#52. The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the whingeing self-pity of those who feel that life owes them something.

Richard Dawkins

#53. I feel sorry for myself. To let me be myself for some period of time and found out that all of her phrases wont make any difference.

Ariel Seraphino

#54. It's hard to feel hurt or frightened when you're flooded with pity.

Lindy West

#55. 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

#56. Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor wretches, just saved from shipwreck. Can we feel anything but awe and pity when we see a fellow-passenger swallowed by the waves?

George Eliot

#57. When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough.

H.L. Mencken

#58. God's pity! How long will it feel like burning?

Anne Carson

#59. If you often feel alone, ignored, or forgotten, think about this: closing the door and locking yourself in won't change anything - literally and figuratively.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#60. I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce scenes symbolized by the very slow washing of dishes.

Teju Cole

#61. I don't really get scared. Want to know what else i don't feel?
PITY

Sarah Rees Brennan

#62. And I confess that, like a child, I cry. Ah, self-pity; I think we are at our most honest and sincere when we feel sorry for ourselves.

Iain Banks

#63. Don't you dare feel bad for me. I'm not writing this for you to shed tears. My story goes a whole lot deeper than this, and I definitely don't want your pity. I adapted. I embraced whatever the fuck came or would come. That's what I do.

M. Robinson

#64. So you're saying your kissing me back was just a pity thing? Because it sure didn't feel that way to me.

Collette West

#65. And pity
people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you
that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people.

Deb Caletti

#66. He wishes he could remember everything. Anything. He doesn't sense a bone in his body that can feel compassion or worthiness. Self-pity hides away as well, the lowest form of emotion not even capable of resting in his wrecked mind.

Christy A. Campbell

#67. Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why do I feel such anguished pity when I see one of these creatures coming and going, sniffing everyone, frightened, despairing of even finding its master?

Emile Zola

#68. I didn't want or need their sympathy because it made me feel weak. I hated pity. I hated people feeling sorry for me.

Dahlia Mikha

#69. There's great sadness and life doesn't work out like you would want, on a lot of levels, but there's no need to feel all alone. This happens to everybody, so there's no self-pity. This is the ride that humans are on, and all of it is essential for our natural part of it.

Mike Mills

#70. Self-pity leads to continuing to love the sin so it still has power over you, but hating yourself. Real repentance is when you say, "What has this sin done to God? What has it cost God? What does God feel about it?

Matt Papa

#71. 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

#72. Miss Aubrey, come and have pity on us. We are reading novels and feel our manliness diminishing by the moment. Come restore our vanity, do, and tell us we look the dashing officers we once were.

Julie Klassen

#73. Tears come to your eyes, and you feel such a rush of tenderness and pity that you stop beside a lamppost and hang on for support.

Jay McInerney

#74. Pity is a really odd thing with abused women. You don't want anyone to think that you feel bad - even though you might.

Kristen Stewart

#75. For the critics who think Chesterton frivolous or 'paradoxical' I have to work hard to feel even pity; sympathy is out of the question.

C.S. Lewis

#76. 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

#77. The heart is greater than the universe, for it can find pity in it for everything in the universe, and the universe itself can feel no pity. The heart is greater than a King, because a heart can know a King for what he is, and still love him. And once you give your heart, you cannot take it back.

Neil Gaiman

#78. He didn't feel that way about anybody. You just live in the place you're in, you don't worry about where you used to be or where you wish you were, here is where you are and here's where you've got to find a way to survive and lying in bed boo-hooing doesn't help much with that.

Orson Scott Card

#79. If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel sorry for myself. And then hate myself for this feeling of self-pity.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower

#80. Sorrow and self-pity consume enormous quantities of energy. If you only can desist from feeling victimized by fate and look for a new solution instead, not only would you conserve old energies but at the same time also feel the surge of the new. New hope is kindled in the process.

G.R. Gopinath

#81. When someone calls you a 'nigger', then you feel sorry for him... You have to pity him because his mind has such a sorry way of expressing itself.

Adam Makos

#82. I myself find him a master of utterly terminal pessimism, appalled by all that an insane humanity may yet survive to do. We are pollution. He wants us to feel no pity for Homo sapiens, and so excludes appealing women and children from his tales.

Kurt Vonnegut

#83. Sometimes, I thought pity was the most heartless thing in the world. All it did was make people feel superior to you, happy, safe, and smug in the knowledge that someone had it worse than they did.

Jennifer Estep

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

Dean Koontz

#85. If only my mother had a book to hold, she wouldn't have looked so lonely. And maybe this was another reason why people read: not so they would feel less lonely, but so that other people would think they looked less lonely with a book in their hands and therefore not pity them and leave them alone.

Brock Clarke

#86. 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

#87. The rich never have a chance of being neighborly to their equals. The best they can do is feel mawkish about the sufferings of their inferiors, which they can never begin to understand, and to be patronizingly kind.

Aldous Huxley

#88. Watch waterfalls of pity roar, you feel to moan but unlike before, you discover that you'd just be one more person crying.

Bob Dylan

#89. Why did the stars seem to be looking down at me with pity, making me feel ant-sized, overwhelmed, completely insignificant? It was too big, that close sky, too beautiful, and it filled me with a strange sense of foreboding.

V.C. Andrews

#90. What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.
I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grief and love and pity and God. I can be brave. I can make myself feel again.

Tim O'Brien

#91. A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't feel the pain. Your belly is whole and that's what counts. A half-yard away someone's world is snuffled out in roaring agony-and you feel nothing. That's the misery of the world.

Erich Maria Remarque

#92. I try to find some pity for Tasha. I don't have any. I try to steal some from how I feel about my mom, but there isn't enough to share it.
I scream, "Fuck this shit!" and kick the chair over. Then I go looking for Hannah

A.S. King

#93. Maybe it's the alcohol in my system muddying it up, but I feel bad for her. It's overwhelming pity; that downgrades hate to dislike, with disclaimers that ward off lifting the veil to allow forgiveness in. Damn her;

Kim Holden

#94. 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

#95. I am sure that if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for him.

Martha Stout

#96. Mom, I feel good. This dress makes me feel like someone I didn't know I could be. I've never owned anything like it. But if when you see this - when you see me- you think it's a pity, that it's a shame I didn't lose a few, then screw you, Mom. Try harder.

Julie Murphy

#97. If you do not feel a fervent love and profound pity for humanity, be assured that the gift of Christian eloquence has been denied you. You will not win souls, neither will you acquire that most excellent of earthly sovereignties - sovereignty over human hearts ... Love is irresistible.

Dwight L. Moody

#98. Does this feel like pity to you, Alex? I assure you a great many emotions for you fill me, but pity is not one of them.

Dominique Eastwick

#99. 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

#100. I feel a pang of pity for the logbook, its secrets are all plucked out in minutes by this whirlwind of light and metal. Books used to be pretty high-tech, back in the day. Not anymore.

Robin Sloan