Top 100 Pity For Quotes
#1. Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#2. With love everything is bought, everything is saved. If even I, a sinful man, just like you, was moved to tenderness and felt pity for you, how much more will God be. Love is such a priceless treasure that you can buy the whole world with it, and redeem not only your own but other people's sins.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#3. Verdiana was the child of poor though well-born parents, and her knowledge of the sufferings of the poor from her own experience in early years made her ever full of pity for those in need.
Sabine Baring-Gould
#4. It must sound, I know, as if I had no pity for him; it wasn't true. I was angry because I was terrified. But there are times when a curse is more bracing than an endearment.
Jacqueline Carey
#5. They say God appeared in history and used it for his purposes, but if that was so he had no pity for men.
Bernard Malamud
#6. I feel the deepest, heartfelt pity for any adult who has never been in love.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#7. You can't change the past and you shouldn't waste energy regretting it or feeling pity for yourself.
Daniel Marques
#8. I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo me; have no pity for self-pity and so am free of that sweet baseness. I doubt I am. Being me's no joke.
John Barth
#10. I knew what is was like to have people stare at you with pity. For everyone's gaze to follow you through the hallways as though you were marked by tragedy and no longer belonged. And I could understand why she hadn't wanted that.
Robyn Schneider
#11. Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while, a great wind is bearing me across the sky.
Ellen Gilchrist
#12. Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.
Richard Wagner
#13. Yossarian was moved by such intense pity for his poverty that he wanted to smash his pale. sad, sickly face with his fist and knock him out of existence
Joseph Heller
#14. Pity for him who one day looks uponhis inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost.
Ruben Dario
#15. Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage - and give exceeding thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still - the veil that hides you from the infinite, which makes it possible for you to believe in what you cannot see.
Robert Nathan
#16. Tell me I'm a sinner I got news for you
I spoke to God this morning and he don't like you!
Don't you try and teach me no original sin;
I don't need your pity for the shape I'm in
Ozzy Osbourne
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. I have always had a slight feeling of pity for man who has no knowledge of chess.
Siegbert Tarrasch
#21. All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#22. 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
#23. I pity for those that suffer and humiliate themselves for the approval of others because they are truly stupid.
Daniel Marques
#24. I literally feel pity for a lot of the stupid idiots that I have to deal with.
Rose McGowan
#25. I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel pity for my psychopaths, because I do.
Ruth Rendell
#26. Charlotte felt a pity for her, because her world was changing, and she did not understand it; it had no place for her. She was like one of Mr. Darwin's dinosaurs, dangerous and ridiculous, beyond its time.
Anne Perry
#27. I didn't like him, but I felt pity for him, which is often the first step toward liking anyone.
Hanya Yanagihara
#28. He is momentarily filled with a kind of pity for his son. What a task lies ahead of him: to learn literally everything.
Maggie O'Farrell
#29. In general, indulgence for those we know is rarer than pity for those we know not.
Antoine Rivarol
#30. If I were over full of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not take my brother's.
Mahatma Gandhi
#31. It's yad that propels us, like a motor, onward. Yad is like envy, but it's not simply that. It's like spite, rage, anger, but more elegant, more complicated. It's like pity for someone, regret for something you did or did not do, for a chance you missed, for an opportunity you squandered.
Miroslav Penkov
#32. 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
#33. To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most disastrous consequences, fatally stupid- almost as stupid as a wish to abolish bad weather - out of pity for the poor.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#34. I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.
Agatha Christie
#35. What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#36. Alice felt a surge of pity for them, stuck as they were within the white-hot glow of youth, when everything seemed so vital, so essential, so important.
Kate Morton
#37. Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent. -Kahlan
Terry Goodkind
#38. All dreams. If there was love or pity for him, it was only in his dreams.
Orson Scott Card
#39. 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
#40. Pity for these inhabitants, I have none. In the first place, they are rebels, and I am almost prepared to agree with Sherman that a rebel has no rights, not even the right to live except by our permission.
Charles Fessenden Morse
#41. 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
#42. To be without pity for other mens falls, is an evident sign that we shall fall ourselves shortly.
Philip Neri
#43. look up to yourselves from the bottom of the river;
those of you on top should provide some pity for those underneath..
the displaced is helpless,
like blood that no one wants to buy in the oil market!
Ashraf Fayadh
#44. Not only must a warrior be strong with his bow, but he must have a heart full of pity for all living creatures.
Eiji Yoshikawa
#45. 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
#46. I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
George Eliot
#47. I felt such pity for her, and such gratitude, too - because she let me be nobody.
M. Pierce
#48. Some will accuse me of being judgmental. Thank you. And proud of it. You wreck a kid's life, I have no pity for you.
Dean Koontz
#49. Why yes, I can,' said Midas Mulligan, when he was asked whether he could name a person more evil than the man with a heart closed to pity. 'The man who uses another's pity for him as a weapon.
Ayn Rand
#50. Never have I felt so separate from her. And I regret to say that there were moments when my deep and loving pity for her merged into a desire to kick her fairly hard.
Dodie Smith
#51. Love and pity for hell's occupants will not enter our hearts.
J.I. Packer
#52. When I see a cow, it is not an animal to eat, it is a poem of pity for me and I worship it and I shall defend its worship against the whole world.
Mahatma Gandhi
#53. Do not mistake my pity for weakness. I will put a bullet in your skull without a second fucking thought. Do you hear me?
L.P. Lovell
#54. Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Bertrand Russell
#55. Surely, if we have learned nothing else, this war has taught us pity - pity for those witless souls that suffer our dominion.
H.G.Wells
#56. 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
#57. He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.
Anais Nin
#58. Happiness is often only a pity for one's own misfortune.
Albert Camus
#59. The poor guy," she said, and this was remorse over her savage speed and rashness as well as pity for this boy, haunting the mouth of an alley with that toy of swift decisions.
Saul Bellow
#60. Sometimes, she felt pity for those countless nameless ones somewhere around them who, in a feverish quest, were searching for some answer, and in their search crushed others, perhaps even her; but she could not be crushed, for she had the answer.
Ayn Rand
#61. 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
#62. When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself included.
Mary Oliver
#63. The wolves of the world have no pity for the confused, the scattered, the lost or the weak.
T.K. Naliaka
#64. I will trade my self-pity for hate. My guilt for cunning. My grief for the spirit of vengeance.
Rick Yancey
#65. 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
#66. I am losing my great, dissolving, disintegrating pity for others, in which I saw deflected the compassion I wanted for myself. I no longer give compassion, which means I no longer need to receive it.
Anais Nin
#67. He looked at her, and the fury expressed in her face alarmed and amazed him. He did not understand how his pity for her exasperated her. She saw in him sympathy for her, but not love.
Leo Tolstoy
#68. She turned her head and there was such sadness, such kindness in her pity for me, that I knew at once how the bold Othello, pirate and soldier - that hard, scarred, killing thing - had lost his heart.
Christopher Moore
#69. When you have lived longer in this world and outlived the enthusiastic and pleasing illusions of youth, you will find your love and pity for the race increase tenfold, your admiration and attachment to a particular party or opinion fall away altogether.
Joseph Henry Shorthouse
#70. 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
#71. Who looks at me, beholdeth sorrows all, All pain, all torture, woe and all distress; I have no need on other harms to call, As anguish, languor, cruel bitterness, Discomfort, dread, and madness more and less; Methinks from heaven above the tears must rain In pity for my harsh and cruel pain.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#72. Beauty plus pity-that is the closest we can get to a definition of art. Where there is beauty there is pity for the simple reason that beauty must die: beauty always dies, the manner dies with the matter, the world dies with the individual.
Vladimir Nabokov
#73. 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
#74. 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
#76. The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at a keyhole. It is a pity for such that the practice is dishonorable.
Sophie Swetchine
#77. If you have pity for perishing people and a passion for the reputation of Christ, you must care about world missions.
John Piper
#78. I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make man happy.
Siegbert Tarrasch
#79. 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
#80. I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.
Soren Kierkegaard
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he's dying don't give him pity for others.
Tennessee Williams
#85. She was moved by a kind of commiseration ... a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium.
Kate Chopin
#86. We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.
Samuel Johnson
#87. 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
#88. In all our lives, however, there are many days when we die a little, when we are wounded by loss or failure, or by fear, or by seeing the suffering of others for whom we are able to offer only pity, for whom we are powerless to offer aid, who are beyond mercy.
Dean Koontz
#89. I have a quite feeling of pity for all those who don't know chess; almost like I am sorry for those who never learned to love. Chess, like love and music, has the ability of making people happy.
Siegbert Tarrasch
#90. That is all faith is, you know. Pity for our souls.
Steven Erikson
#91. If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the shedding of precious German blood, then surely I have the right to remove millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin.
Adolf Hitler
#92. 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
#93. He does not feel pity for himself - thus he can successfully develop.
Laozi
#94. We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving you have no time for this. You just push these emotions out.
Frederick Lenz
#95. I take a cruel joy in seeing you tremble and writhe beneath my whip, and in hearing your groans and wails; I want to go on whipping without pity until you beg for mercy, until you lose your senses.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#96. This train of thought was heading straight for Pity City, and she wanted to get off.
Lauren Kate
#97. The Irish tell the story of a man who arrives at the gates of heaven and asks to be let in St. Peter says, "Of course, just show us your scars." The man says, "I have no scars". St. Peter says, "What a pity was there nothing worth fighting for"?
Martin Sheen
#98. Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Don Marquis
#99. The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and never have the thrill of victory.
Jonathan Kozol
#100. God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does.
J.G. Holland
