Quotes About Being Pitied

#1. 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

#2. They fascinated him, the unsubtle cowering of the almost rich in the presence of the rich, and the rich in the presence of the very rich; to have money, it seemed, was to be consumed by money. Obinze felt repulsion and longing; he pitied them, but he also imagined being like them.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#3. The sun kept on with its slipping away, and I thought how many small good things in the world might be resting on the shoulders of something terrible.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#4. But in 1877 it erupted into grandiose dimensions.

Anonymous

#5. If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be alive and have the bad image.

Golda Meir

#6. She had all day every day to figure out some decent and satisfying way to live, and yet all she ever seemed to get for all her choices and all her freedom was more miserable. The autobiographer is almost forced to the conclusion that she pitied herself for being so free.

Jonathan Franzen

#7. San Francisco was her favorite. It was the kind of city where being independent was valued, not pitied or regarded as a problem to be rectified by well-meaning friends.

Susan Wiggs

#8. Tota est scientia
Knowledge is all

Rachel Caine

#9. Ah," Sean said, smothering a laugh. "The brilliant plan falling apart? Wow. Wish I'd seen that coming. Oh. Wait. I did.

Maureen Child

#10. As people age, they confuse changes in themselves with changes in the world, and changes in the world with moral decline - the illusion of the good old days.

Steven Pinker

#11. Being sick robs a person of their health and being poor robs them of life's luxuries, but being pitied robs them of their will to live.

Bette Lee Crosby

#12. A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.

Karl Philipp Moritz

#13. I always hated those classic kid movies like Old Yeller or The Yearling where the beloved pet dies. What would be so wrong with having those damn kids learn their lessons about mortality from watching Grandpa kick? Then at least the dog would be around to comfort them.

Merrill Markoe

#14. Today he failed to change the world. As for tomorrow, who can tell?

Neal Shusterman

#15. Let everyone, everywhere know that where Your name is called upon, Your people can win battles they never should've won.

Karen Kingsbury

#16. Kendra's kisses are more hollow to me than a flute.

Simone Elkeles

#17. The only thing worse than having no friends is being pitied for having no friends.

Lauren Oliver

#18. Do not fear those who bear you ill will, they soon shall fall in shame, read Georgina, cackling with mirth.

Leonora Carrington

#19. A friend comes over with a Ouija board.
It spells out: Bourbon. Where's the band?
Just because you're dead doesn't mean you can't
have fun.

Kelli Russell Agodon

#20. These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow.

Victor Hugo

#21. You have to live a little." Grandma fitted the track bar into the cog on the track. "Go out with a bad boy. Run headfirst into a fight. Get roaring drunk. Something!

Ilona Andrews

#22. Certainly the attrition rate of Hollywood couples looms large.

Brad Pitt

#23. You are my rainbow to keep. My eyes will always be watching you; never will I lose sight of you.

Vesna Bailey

#24. Given the unprecedented ignorance of the Bible in contemporary America, it is likely that more young Americans will only know the Noah of 'Noah.' We can only hope that the film offers even a fraction of the wisdom of the original.

Dennis Prager