Top 100 Quotes About Pity
#1. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
Toni Morrison
#2. When one rises above the individual villainy displayed, one can only pity them all, just as we shall be pitied some day.
Arthur Miller
#3. Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.
Criss Jami
#4. Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity.
Chris Van Allsburg
#6. They had counted on his pity and dreaded his anger; they had not dared consider the third alternative: his indifference.
Ayn Rand
#7. Pity . . . is more properly bestowed in cases of involuntary suffering than of crime and offences committed voluntarily and with malice aforethought.
Antiphon
#8. He could be happy, if surrounded by the right people, if allowed to be Will, instead of The Man in the Wheelchair, the list of symptoms, the object of pity. And
Jojo Moyes
#9. Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest.
Francis Beaumont
#10. Do I have my days when I've thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely.
Jennifer Aniston
#11. It's time to blow out the candles on the pity party cake.
Louie Giglio
#12. What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
Oscar Wilde
#13. Yes, I have a romantic nature; it is a character flaw which should be viewed with pity, not derision.
Andrew Levkoff
#14. It was raw pity and unconstrained joy.
Hugh Howey
#15. 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
#16. His life before the triumph that defined his legacy was a reminder of the importance of patience, courage, and the absence of self-pity.
Tom Brokaw
#18. Pity addresses the perceived suffering, not the whole individual.
Phil Klay
#19. I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. I breathe for my own necessity, for the fuel of my body, for my survival. I've given you, not my sacrifice or my pity, but my ego and my naked need. This is the only way I can want you to love me.
Ayn Rand
#20. Only fools pity survivors their scars and you should never kowtow to fools
Jeaniene Frost
#21. When he paraded his possessions hereafter, they would not consider the two together. They'd look with envy at the things and pity the man that owned them.
Zora Neale Hurston
#22. It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.
Lyman Abbott
#23. Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you
these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine Dark Ones.
Sergei Lukyanenko
#24. Only a teaspoon of self-pity, girl. Every day give yourself a teaspoonful, but only a teaspoonful. Fill it up full, but only once! Don't let yourself have more. You can't live off it. But just a bit of it is like a tonic.
Breena Clarke
#25. He gazed at me with kindness and pity. "To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil." I turned
Sue Monk Kidd
#26. The loyal dogs of a dictator are much more dangerous than the dictator himself because a dictator can bite you only through his supporters. Without his dogs, he is nothing! More's the pity, the world history is full of such loyal biters!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#27. You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
Stanley Kubrick
#29. I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.
Georges Bernanos
#30. 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
#31. People who pity themselves think, 'Why would I try to do anything? I'll just fail.'
Joyce Meyer
#32. Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your laughter can you win.
Joni Mitchell
#33. For just this moment, he wanted her to see him for who he was, without the pity he knew she'd feel when she found out the truth.
Travis Neighbor Ward
#34. Truth is the only good and the purest pity ... Men lie for profit or for pity. All lies turn to poison, but a lie that is told for pity or shame breeds such a host of ills that no power on earth can compass their redemption.
Storm Jameson
#35. Oh may He look on us with love and pity and then we shall be able to do anything He wishes us to do, no matter how difficult to accomplish or painful to our feeling.
Catherine McAuley
#36. Adopting a child is a blessing. Those who perceive themselves as "doing someone a favor" are not ready to adopt. Pity is such an insult. When making a lifetime commitment to someone, it's no time to let guilt or excessive altruism take over.
William R. Cutrer
#37. Those who hate, are merely wallowing in self pity. Those who lie about someone to destroy his or her spirit, are simply trying to hide their fragile egos.
Emma Paul
#38. Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies.
Patrick Rothfuss
#39. What a pity people don't take as much trouble with their own breeding as intelligent racehorse owners do. But then I suppose it is bordering on fascism to think like that.
Jeffrey Bernard
#40. What's more certain than anything is that your pity is even stronger than my love!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#41. Great God, have pity on the wicked, for thou didst everything for the good, when thou madest them good!
Saadi
#42. People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand why they find me so annoying but they do. It is pity, but that is how it is.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
#43. Keeping his voice light, he said, "As my soon-to-be crown princess, you're supposed to set an example, not a new trend."
"Pity. I seem to be particularly good at starting new trends.
Gwynn White
#44. New York City gritty committee pity the fool that act shitty in the midst of the calm, the witty.
Pharoahe Monch
#45. Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain ...
William Shakespeare
#46. For to him that is pitiless the deeds of pity are ever strange and beyond reckoning.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#47. Rescue the perishing, care for the dying,
Snatch them in pity from sin and the grave;
Weep o'er the erring one, lift up the fallen,
Tell them of Jesus the mighty to save.
Fanny Crosby
#48. Fifteen years, and all he had to show were an amount of self-pity and a busted marriage with an innocent daughter hanging between them. It was more disgusting than sad.
Ian Rankin
#49. Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.
Jose Marti
#50. Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.
William Law
#51. When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.
Haniel Long
#52. It's a pity you didn't have a little more brandy. It might have made you more agreeable!
Noel Coward
#53. Savior, if of Zion's city I through grace a member am; Let the world deride or pity, I will glory in thy name Fading is the worldling's pleasure, All his boasted pomp and show; Solid joys and lasting treasure, None but Zion's children know.
John Newton
#54. Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn.
Friedrich Schiller
#55. Maybe it's the alcohol in my system muddying it up, but I feel bad for her. It's overwhelming pity; that downgrades hate to dislike, with disclaimers that ward off lifting the veil to allow forgiveness in. Damn her;
Kim Holden
#56. If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield
#57. 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
#58. As Stephen Levine says, "When your fear touches someone's pain it becomes pity; when your love touches someone's pain, it becomes compassion.
Nina Angela McKissock
#59. A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
-The Last Seance (from The Hound of Death and Other Stories, also Double Sin and Other Stories)
Agatha Christie
#60. There's a lot that you can be
And ain't it a pity
But its alright to smile back at me
Shannon Hoon
#61. Some things take so long
But how do I explain
When not too many people
Can see we're all the same
And because of all their tears
Your eyes can't hope to see
The beauty that surrounds them
Now, isn't it a pity
George Harrison
#62. Which Painters hold, and such the heritage This gentle solemn Spirit doth possess, Being a better mirror of his age In all his pity, love, and weariness, Than those who can but copy common things, And leave the Soul unpainted with its mighty questionings. But
Oscar Wilde
#63. 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
#64. If you have pity for perishing people and a passion for the reputation of Christ, you must care about world missions.
John Piper
#65. For pity's sake, you are lying in a coffin, Mrs. Crofton. Unless you wish to be buried, I strongly suggest that you resurrect yourself immediately.
Amanda Quick
#66. Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal.
Voltaire
#67. What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
Frederick Douglass
#68. Things might have been different if she hadn't been able to drift; if she'd had to concentrate on her next meal, instead of dwelling on all the injuries she felt we'd done her. An unearned income encourages self-pity in those already prone to it.
Margaret Atwood
#69. It seemed to Kitty a pity that her new friend's mind was set so irrevocably upon marriage, but her suggestion that Olivia might seek an eligible situation as a governess met with no favour at all. Olivia stared at her with dismay in her big eyes, and unequivocally stated her preference for death.
Georgette Heyer
#70. What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint.
Marc Chagall
#71. 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
#72. Speech is a powerful master and achieves the most divine feats with the smallest and least evident body. It can stop fear, relieve pain, create joy, and increase pity
Gorgias
#73. Do not envy the rich; pity them. Matthew 19:24.
Felix Wantang
#74. There was money enough ... but she asked so much of life, in ways so complex and immaterial. He thought of her as walking bare-footed through a stony waste. No one would understand her- no one would pity her- and he, who did both, was powerless to come to her aid.
Edith Wharton
#75. Pity is like lust ... both like to masquerade as love and it's powerfully hard to know the difference when you're in the throes of it.
Michelle Black
#76. Most of the time nothing much is required of directors, which is a pity.
Asia Argento
#77. You might think people would buy clothes out of pity,
but they won't. People buy clothes because
they want to be excited about themselves.
... it has to be great clothing
that just happens to be goody-goody, too.
Katharine Hamnett
#78. Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people's wrongs his own.
John Dryden
#79. Pity about all that publicity when the hamster smashed its way out of its treadmill and ate that man's leg before flying away, but that was Progrethth for you.
Terry Pratchett
#80. They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
Arthur Helps
#81. To feel pity, to be carried away by the pleasure of hearing a clever argument, to listen to the claims of decency are three things that are entirely against the interests of an imperial power.
Thucydides
#83. In my heart's most secret place,
I pity them as angels do.
Sara Teasdale
#84. We are seldom sorry for those who need and crave our pity - we reserve this for those who, by other means, make us exercise the abstract function of pity.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#85. Look" I narrowed my eyes at Mr. Gorgeous. "I'm kind of in the middle of a nervous breakdown and after that I plan on having a very festive pity party, table for one, so unless you are here to put me out of my misery I suggest you scurry on your way.
Jennifer L. Hart
#86. 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
#87. Resentment is, in every stage of the passion, painful, but it is not disagreeable, unless in excess; pity is always painful, yet always agreeable; vanity, on the contrary, is always pleasant, yet always disagreeable.
Alec Douglas-Home
#88. For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.
Halldor Laxness
#89. Men must learn now with pity to dispense;
For policy sits above conscience.
William Shakespeare
#90. Piety and pity were a little to close to each other for my tastes.
Jodi Picoult
#92. I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.
Dave Matthews
#93. Sounded to me like he had a pretty good idea what he was saying," Van replied, with surprisingly little anger. "It's a pity he had to overintellectualize like that. He did such good work, and then he had to go and intellectualize it.
Jonathan Franzen
#95. No sin is worse than the sin of self-pity, because it obliterates God and puts self-interest upon the throne.
Oswald Chambers
#96. 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
#97. The pity of living only once is that there is no way, ever, to be sure which sorrows are inevitable.
Rosellen Brown
#99. You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance, Domingo said.
William Goldman
