Pities Quotes

#1. When one has suffered or fears suffering, one pities those who suffer; but when one is suffering, one pities only oneself.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#2. It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.

Virginia Woolf

#3. The less you reveal, the more people can wonder.

Emma Watson

#4. Pictures ... are also opinions ... [they] set down what the camera operator sees and he sees what he wants to see and what he loves and hates and pities and is proud of.

John Steinbeck

#5. I am not prone to weeping as our sex commonly are; the want of which vain dew perchance shall dry your pities;
but I have that honorable grief lodged here which burns worse than tears drown.

William Shakespeare

#6. Because it is a thousand pities never to say what one feels, he thought...

Virginia Woolf

#7. For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.

Charles Caleb Colton

#8. One pities most those who loved, and still died. Only those who love, dread death.

Craig L. Rice

#9. To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

Miguel De Unamuno

#10. When Eve upon the first of Men
The apple press'd with specious cant,
Oh! what a thousand pities then
That Adam was not adamant!

Thomas Hood

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

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#12. I am vegetarian, so I don't have clothes, shoes or bags made from leather or suede or any animal products. Shoes are hard to find. These are fake Uggs. And I've got a pair of vintage boots, which are PVC.

Leona Lewis

#13. Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery.

Homer

#14. Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no sunday, it becomes an orphan.

Albert Schweitzer

#15. How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

Desmond Tutu

#16. Love is for middle class", Fellows said."The poor can't afford it, and neither can the rich.

Jennifer Ashley

#17. Idling of our elders is called business; the idling of boys, though quite like it, is punished by those same elders, and no one pities either the boys or the men.

Augustine Of Hippo

#18. The Christian pities men because they are dying, and the Buddhist pities them because they are living. The Christian is sorry for what damages the life of a man; but the Buddhist is sorry for him because he is alive.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#19. There's a certain satisfaction in a little bit of pain.

Madonna Ciccone

#20. My parabatai, she thought, looking at Jules, standing with his back straight and his head back, the only seventeen-year-old boy in the world who could make the King of the Dark Court doubt himself.

Cassandra Clare

#21. In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and nobody pities their Case.

Benjamin Franklin

#22. When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant.

Geezer Butler

#23. The Great slight the men of wit, who have nothing but wit; the men of wit despise the Great, who have nothing but greatness; the good man pities them both, if with greatness or wit they have not virtue.

Jean De La Bruyere

#24. You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#25. Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drinks all around.

H. Beam Piper

#26. Rapacity plus taste is a formidable combination, since it so often passes for intelligence. One pities the artist in a world of such predators, all of whom are deeply engaged in the arts too.

Gilbert Sorrentino

#27. Ask a glass of water why it pities
the rain. Ask the lunatic yard dog why it tolerates the leash.

Terrance Hayes

#28. None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.

Robert Herrick

#29. The destruction of Wonderland, is the destruction of me?!

Alice Liddell

#30. Because it is a thousand pities to never say what one feels

Virginia Woolf

#31. The worst thing we can do, the absolute worst, is to do nothing.

Fritz Gerlich