Pitifully Quotes

#1. The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#2. 1I smiled bitterly, a defeated man pitifully begging a God in whom he had never trusted.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#3. The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.

J. Paul Getty

#4. The Soul Toupee is that thing about ourselves we are most deeply embarrassed by and like to think we have cunningly concealed from the world, but which is, in fact, pitifully obvious to everybody who knows us.

Tim Kreider

#5. Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory.

Justin Kaplan

#6. Because sometimes words were so pitifully inadequate, and I knew that, but I had to try anyway.

Jenny Han

#7. His numerous legs, pitifully thin in comparison to the rest of his circumference, flickered helplessly before his eyes.

Franz Kafka

#8. That the rooms were pitifully furnished, with dirty sheets in

James Patterson

#9. But it was ever thus. That which has never come within the scope of our really pitifully meager world-experience cannot be - our

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#10. He is at once a great lazybones, pitifully ambitious, and famous for unhappiness; for his entire life he has had practically nothing but half-baked ideas. The sun of laziness, which ceaselessly glows within him, vaporizes him and gnaws away that half-genius that heaven bestowed upon him.

Charles Baudelaire

#11. I am just pitifully nostalgic. I can't help but roll my eyes at myself frequently. I mean, I still shoot black-and-white film. And I am constantly reminiscing about the 'good old days.' I'm 28 years old. There haven't even been that many 'good old days.' But still, I love to look back.

Chris Lowell

#12. I'd stopped giving a damn about the human world a long time ago. It's our basis. Our cradle. But we are Others. We walk through closed doors and we maintain the balance of Good and Evil. There are pitifully few of us, and we can't reproduce - it

Sergei Lukyanenko

#13. Today, public understanding of our past and our system of government is pitifully low.

Eric Liu

#14. There are great advantages to seeing yourself as an accident created by amateur parents as they practiced. You then have been left in an imperfect state and the rest is up to you. Only the most pitifully inept child requires perfection from parents.

Frank Pittman

#15. No, he wasn't like them at all. And even though my experience with the opposite sex was pitifully non-existent, this was someone I wanted to know. Someone I needed to know. Someone I needed to have know me.

Penelope King

#16. I could get no further. There was a boulder lodged in my throat. My heart surged pitifully. I knew what the boulder was; that it was a word; and that behind that word I would find my earliest emotions. Emotions that had frightened me insane.

Alice Walker

#17. I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin the winding-sheet and her worms to fill in the grave, and her grass to cover it pitifully up, adding flowers - as an unknown hand added them to the grave of Nero.

Edward Thomas

#18. He had reached the outer limits of what Fun, capital F, could do for him. The cost was way too high, the returns pitifully inadequate.

Lev Grossman

#19. Life is pitifully mediocre without passion. Never let anyone take your passion away from you.

Keely Brooke Keith

#20. There was a young woman named Fleager
Who was terribly, terribly eager
To be all the rage
On the tragedy stage,
Though her talents were pitifully meagre.

Edward Gorey

#21. The fear of an unknown never resolves, because the unknown expands infinitely outward, leaving you to cling pitifully to any small shelter of the known: a cracker has twelve calories; the skin, when cut, bleeds.

Caroline Kettlewell

#22. The handy thing about being a father is that the historic standard is so pitifully low.

Michael Chabon

#23. Women lose their delicacy and refinement, when they are compelled night and day to haggle with their destiny over things pitifully small, and for this they are blamed by those whom their toil supports.

Rabindranath Tagore

#24. I will maintain the presence of a Mexican Army, and the Navy and police in the states of the Mexican Republic, where the problem of crime has increased.

Enrique Pena Nieto

#25. We may be old, boys, but we're not dead."
"I will murder you if you ever, ever imply that my mother has sex ever again," Isaac mutters as he cringes.

Kristen Proby

#26. Why are some people talkative while others measure their words? Why

Susan Cain

#27. I'm not so much a dragon slayer, more a dragon annoyer
I'm a dragon irritater.

Craig Ferguson

#28. It's a family joke that when I was a tiny child I turned from the window out of which I was watching a snowstorm, and hopefully asked, Momma, do we believe in winter?

Philip Roth