Top 26 Piteous Quotes
#1. The big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose, In piteous chase.
William Shakespeare
#3. And the shining strengthened me against the fright
whose agony had wracked the lake of my heart
through all the terrors of that piteous night.
Dante Alighieri
#4. Akela, the grim old wolf who had never asked for mercy in his life, gave one piteous look at Mowgli as the boy stood all naked, his long black hair tossing over his shoulders in the light of the blazing branch that made the shadows jump and quiver.
Rudyard Kipling
#5. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life,
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Doth with their death bury their parents' strife ...
O, I am fortune's fool! ...
Then I defy you, stars.
William Shakespeare
#6. We are nothing but a string of gut on a stick of bone riding this piece of astral soot for one piteous splinter of eternity.
Peter De Vries
#7. Like a black pirate flag on the blue ocean of air, a hawk hung ominous; then, plummet-wise, dropped to the hedgerow, whence there rose, thin and shrill, a piteous voice of squealing. By
Kenneth Grahame
#8. The rabbit presses back her ears, Turns back her liquid, anguished eyes And crouches low: then with wild spring Spurts from the terror of his oncoming To be choked back, the wire ring Her frantic effort throttling: Piteous brown ball of quivering fears!
D.H. Lawrence
#9. The concerto's beauty was even more impassioned than he remembered, and also more piteous and quiet and restrained, and he clasped his hands together to absorb both the grief and joy in his body.
Madeleine Thien
#10. The sounds of a man crying is a piteous noise, almost worse than an infant's cry. Babies are either hungry, sick or bored, or need changing. This man was none of those things. He was wrapped in grief as deep as the ocean, and no one could do anything to help him.
Samantha Hayes
#11. And why is he here?" "Because an illustrious client has placed her piteous case in my hands. It is the Lady Eva Blackwell, the most beautiful debutante of last season.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#12. There can be such a sky, and such
A play of rays, that our heart feels
An insult to a doll is more
Piteous than an insult to oneself.
("It Happened at Vallen-Koski")
Innokenty Annensky
#13. I have learned over the course of my many years that it is a bad idea, usually, to investigate piteous weeping but always a fine thing to look into a giggle.
Lois Lowry
#14. Be collected.
No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart
There's no harm done.
William Shakespeare
#15. Only in the chamber of death writhed the world's most piteous thing - a childless mother.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#16. I'm finding that I tend to be one of those people who gets into very committed, long-term relationships, and then I really focus on that relationship and not so much myself.
Danielle Fishel
#17. My best year I made $25,000. Of course, that was back in the '70s.
Chris LeDoux
#18. Don't let the world ... Cheer you up.
Grumpy Cat
#19. Simplicity of appearance can cause hindrance to success when you are poor. But the same simplicity is admired in a rich and successful person.
Shon Mehta
#20. If we do not accomplish it in time, what has begun with a monkey may not end with a monkey. Next even a swarm of mosquitoes may decide to challenge your authority.
R.K. Narayan
#21. Sincerity is not test of truth-no evidence of correctness of conduct. You may take poison sincerely believing it the needed medicine, but will it save your life?
Tryon Edwards
#22. Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.
Louis D. Brandeis
#23. The Church is not an automobile showroom - a place to put ourselves on display so that others can admire our spirituality, capacity, or prosperity. It is more like a service center, where vehicles in need of repair come for maintenance and rehabilitation.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#24. Each life has its share of heroism, an obscure heroism, born of abdication, of renunciation and acceptance under the merciless whip of fate.
Mariama Ba
#25. I didn't know it then - I couldn't have - but in that moment, the rest of my life, or what was left of it, began.
Emma Scott
#26. God has brought me this far. He has laid out a phenomenal path for me. And I can't do anything but thank him.
Colin Kaepernick
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