Top 100 Pity You Quotes
#1. Dandamis then looked at Alexander with pity. 'You have nothing I want,' he said. 'Once, you might have been a passable philosopher, but now you value no opinion save your own. You wander because you cannot bear to be still-you conquer because you cannot bear to rule.
Christian Cameron
#2. There's so much of you here with me, really, it's a pity you aren't all here.
D.H. Lawrence
#4. Many people have said to me, "What a pity you had such a big family to raise." "Think of the novels and the short stories and the poems you never had time to write because of that." And I looked at my children and I said, "These are my poems, these are my stories."
Olga Masters
#5. this is all you have, I pity you. Your ploys may have hurt the man I love, but that is not all that I have. Even if you succeed in placing these ballrooms beyond my reach, you will never ruin
Kristi Ann Hunter
#6. 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
#7. If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
Francis Of Assisi
#8. A pity you were not born a woman in this life, Little King of Lesser Land, for you seek only to please and to be admired by all.
Sharon Kay Penman
#9. I do not pity you. But I do know what it feels like. To be wanted only for what you are.
Samantha Shannon
#10. It's a pity you didn't know when you started your game of murder, that I was playing, too.
Robb White
#11. You will never win anyone through pity. You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusion born from disillusion.
Sylvia Plath
#12. It's a pity you are a torturer," Ultan said. "You might have been a philosopher.
Gene Wolfe
#13. Then you should be as willing. I know how poison fascinates you. Surely dying from it will fascinate you, too." Leaning closer, I hiss, "It is a pity you cannot take notes.
Maryrose Wood
#14. Tracy looked at me with affectionate pity. "You feel alive. Regular people feel dead."
"I have new batteries in.
Cate Tiernan
#15. When you were a bird you knew the fairies pretty well, and you remember a good deal about them in your babyhood, which it is a great pity you can't write down, for gradually you forget, and I have heard of children who declared that they had never once seen a fairy.
J.M. Barrie
#16. Oh, that is the surprise. It's so lovely, I pity you because you don't know it ...
Louisa May Alcott
#17. The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack
Sophie Swetchine
#19. So many people, even now, admire privation. They think it sharpens you, the way beauty does, into something that might hurt them. They calculate their own strengths against it, unconsciously, preparing to pity you or fight. Like
Emily Fridlund
#20. You selfish dog. I pity you that you must leave the comfort of your pampered surroundings and sacrifice a little to serve our country for a time
Jennifer Clark
#21. You rave about the Holy Place (Masjid al-Haram) and say you've visited God's garden but where is your bunch of flowers? There is some merit in the suffering you have endured but what a pity you have not discovered the Makkah thats inside
Rumi
#22. I pity you who are my companions, because you think that you are doing something when in reality you are doing nothing.
Plato
#23. Caitlyn is breathtaking, one of the most gorgeous women I've had the pleasure of meeting, and I pity you for being so wrapped up in shit-talk you'd stoop to the level you just did. But you've given me all the more reason to beat your ass come September.
Abby Niles
#24. Being a retired major looks like an ideal thing to me. What a pity you couldn't eternally have been just a retired major.
Fernando Pessoa
#25. If you have been wise and successful I congratulate you. Unless you are unable to forget how successful you have been, then I pity you.
Napoleon Hill
#26. It's strange to see such an evil-looking pair of eyes fill with pity. You couldn't get a more sympathetic response if Raffe had just told him they'd castrated him.
Susan Ee
#27. Grandfather had a saying: If you know a lot, know enough to make people respect you. If you are stupid, be stupid enough so they can pity you.
Camron Wright
#28. Brilliant. A very funny and concise explanation of why we men are as we are. If you are male, you should read it and then make your partner read it, so they will no longer hate you but pity you instead.
Harry Enfield
#29. And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.
Jane Austen
#30. Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to the biggest dance of the year. Empathy is what I do to you when you judge me. Envy is having pity on yourself. Can you discern the rest for yourself?
Mahatma Gandhi
#31. 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
#32. If you were not full of self-pity you would soon observe that we ourselves are to blame for all this evil, because we refuse to understand that it is in reality a good thing.
Tito Colliander
#33. You said: "most days, I pity you more than I love you". I just love you.
Trista Mateer
#34. Goodbye!" "Oh, not goodbye!" he protested. "I mean to know you better, Miss Lanyon of Undershaw!" "To be sure, it does seem a pity you should not, after such a promising start, but life, you know, is full of disappointments, and that, I must warn you, is likely to prove one of them.
Georgette Heyer
#35. It's a pity you think that the world can be righted through murder. Isn't there enough death in the world already from hunger, starvation, calamities, and the stupid wars you stupid humans wage against each other?
Vincent De Paul
#36. I pity you, FOOL!
Mr. T
#38. I pity you all ... Most of you will die
scratch that
ALL of you.
Gerard Way
#40. We are what we are forever, unchanging - you are everything all at once, past and present and future all rioting together. I pity you terribly, I could never bear to be like you, but I wonder and wonder about you.
Peter S. Beagle
#41. I should pity you, did I not know, that the Mind will make friends of any thing. A Mind that can make friends of any thing - I thought of that often during the war.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#42. Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.
Henry Ward Beecher
#43. It's a pity you didn't have a little more brandy. It might have made you more agreeable!
Noel Coward
#44. After everything, you still want to believe that love prevails, that in the end there will be justice. That is an illusion, and I pity you.
Jessica Fortunato
#45. You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
Stanley Kubrick
#47. Like a lot of people, she thought love solved everything: just smear it over the problem, and it'll all work out. Then they had the arrogance to pity you if you saw things more rationally.
Kay Kenyon
#48. I pity you. You've crawled up your own asshole and died.
Kurt Vonnegut
#49. It's a pity you are so poor & plain. And a shame you have such intelligence & spirit, Miss Middleton. You might otherwise make a man an acceptable spouse.
M.R.C. Kasasian
#50. Luke laughed, We were about to go rescue you from your captors. Pity you had to turn up so soon. I was hoping to storm the garrison gates and sally forth on horseback to carry you to safety.
Nicole Sager
#51. And I can't wait to see what your mother thinks about all of this, too." I paused, shaking my head. "No one stops to consider their mothers. It's a pity." "You
J.R. Rain
#52. You invented the bitterness. I pity you. You suck.
Roger Taylor
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. Nobody likes me," he concluded at the tail end of a ten-minute pity fest.
"Can't imagine why," Quinn murmured. I turned my snort of laughter into a fake cough,
which was an embarrassingly feeble attempt at subterfuge when you consider the fact that
I didn't have any lungs.
Robin Wasserman
#56. You ought to pity me 'cause there's always one man to love/ But in the bedroom the size of him's more than enough.
Lady Gaga
#57. Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might be a handle to take hold of.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
#58. 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
#59. What are you doing?" she asked, trying to raise herself.
"First, I thought I'd show you what a pity it would be if they cut off my wicked tongue.
Melina Marchetta
#60. It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are finished.
Mrs. Miracle
Debbie Macomber
#61. The sick person becomes very adept at distinguishing between compassion and pity. Compassion is someone else's suffering flaring in your own nerves. Pity is a projection of, a lament for, the self. All those people weeping in the mirror of your misery? Their tears are real, but they are not for you.
Christian Wiman
#62. Egg has the truth of it. Aerion's quite the monster. He thinks he's a dragon in human form, you know. That's why he was so wroth at that puppet show. A pity he wasn't born a Fossoway, then he'd think himself an apple and we'd all be a deal safer, but there you are.
George R R Martin
#63. Self-pity is like chocolate; as you get older, you can only afford a little bit.
Charlaine Harris
#64. 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
#65. What you absolutely must not do is turn around and walk out. Otherwise, you will miss the party, and that would be a pity, because - please believe me - we did not come all this great distance, and make all this great effort, only to miss the party at the last moment.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#66. You didn't choose God. He chose you. When you stop feeling hurt by everyone and plotting your comeback, he has some very important things he wants you to accomplish with your life.
Shannon L. Alder
#67. When you marry a woman out of pity, then its a pity that you'll send her away very soon.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#68. Donald Lydecker: Alcoholism is not a disease, it's a failing. You've turned it into a church. You worship the altar of self-pity. I come to these rooms for one reason, to remember what I don't want to become ... helpless, impotent, and weak.
James Cameron
#69. 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
#70. I had taken this time to fall in love instead - inn love with the sort of helplessness I had not felt inn death - the helplessness of being alive, the dark bright pity of being human - feeling as you went, groping in corners and opening your arms to light - all of it part of nagivating the unknown.
Alice Sebold
#72. I have some gold. I will interest you. Pity me. I beg you to help me.
China Mieville
#73. Give plenty of what is given to you, And listen to pity's call. Don't think the little you give is great, And the much you get is small.
Phoebe Cary
#74. Help me," I sobbed. "I beg you, help me." My eyes burned, but
no tears came. I had lost the basic human ability to weep. Human ... I
am no longer human. "Destroy me. Take pity and send me on my way.
Carol Oates
#75. Heard my girl Avery stomped you so hard in a game of pool that Grayson had to take pity on you before every college freshman at UVU saw just how small your junk is.
Kelly Oram
#76. There are no souls, Melba thought with a touch of pity. We are bags of meat with a little electricity running through them. No ghosts, no spirits, no souls. The only thing that survives is the story people tell about you.
James S.A. Corey
#77. You can't change the past and you shouldn't waste energy regretting it or feeling pity for yourself.
Daniel Marques
#78. Please don't say you're sorry, False platitudes of sorrow, of pity, of goddamned praise of being a hero, sicken me.
Dominique Eastwick
#79. Love does nothing but make you weak! It turns you into an object of pity and derision-a mewling pathetic creature no more fit to live than a worm squirming on the pavement after a hard summer rain.
Teresa Medeiros
#80. I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn't mind being pitied. If you love me, pity me. The human state is pitiable: born to die, capable of so much, accomplishing so little; killing instead of creating, destroying instead of building, hating instead of loving. Pitiful, pitiful.
Jessamyn West
#81. She very nearly reached for his hand, but curled her fingers into a fist instead. He wouldn't appreciate her pity, and how did you pity a man who'd survived hell? You didn't pity him. You admired him.
Maya Banks
#82. You are the determining factor in your future. Don't let others be your judge and jury with their pity and negative thoughts or feeling. Know that you are here for a reason. Recognize, develop, and use the resources you do have. Others see the surface; you know your heart.
Zig Ziglar
#83. It's a pity if someone ... has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice, his work embodies the deepest, most obscure, freshest, rawest oyster of reality in the unfathomable refrigerator of the heart's ocean, but I am such a one, and there you have it.
Leonard Cohen
#84. All of you, all who are present
consider me worthy of pity, do you
not? Good God! When I think of what I was on the point of doing, I
consider that I am to be envied.
Victor Hugo
#85. 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
#86. Self-pity is wasted emotion. It merely prolongs whatever trauma you suffered by keeping it alive in your head. Dude, you survived it. Move on.
Karen Marie Moning
#87. Self Pity is the most miserable party to go to, because, in case you haven't noticed, you're the only one who is there ...
Joyce Meyer
#88. People in distress never think that you feel enough.
Samuel Johnson
#89. Long before the child learns to talk properly ... the world will have become a habit. A pity, if you ask me.
Jostein Gaarder
#90. She was a stay-at-home mom who'd completed her job. Lost her job. A thundercloud of self-pity built in her emotional sky, but she fled from it, tried to outrun it, by lecturing herself aloud. "You haven't lost your family. They just don't live with you anymore. In lots of ways, that's a good thing.
Emily March
#91. Gentlemen, I must ask you to rid yourselves of all feeling of pity. We must annihilate the Jews wherever we find them and wherever it is possible in order to maintain there the structure of the Reich as a whole ...
Hans Frank
#92. If you can be free from pride, self-pity, self-centeredness, selfishness, jealousy, envy, intolerance, impatience, greed, gluttony, lust, sloth, arrogance, and dishonesty, then there is a state of serenity and connectedness within.
Russell Brand
#93. I can see Richard Wagner standing at the gates of heaven. "You have to let me in," he says. "I wrote Parsifal. It has to do with the Grail, Christ, suffering, pity and healing. Right?" And they answer, "Well, we read it and it makes no sense." SLAM.
Philip K. Dick
#94. It's my hurt, my pain, and who are you to take it from me? I don't need rescuing, I don't need pity, I don't need opinions, I need fucking
and maybe a little spanking for indulging my anger.
Toni Bentley
#95. Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#96. O, you have torn my life all to pieces ... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
Thomas Hardy
#97. 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
#98. You have exactly 10 seconds to change that look of disgusting pity, into one of enormous respect!
Max Bialystock
#99. I learn from my own daughter that you don't have to be awake to cry.
Jodi Picoult
#100. It looks like you've found an intellectual equal, Mulch," said Holly. "It's a pity he isn't a girl; then you could marry him."
Mulch imitated shock. "Romance outside your species. Now THAT's disgusting. What kind of weirdo would kiss someone when they weren't even part of the same species?
Eoin Colfer
