Best 305 quotes in «pity quotes» category

While pity shows a lack of respect for other human beings, compassion has its roots in a deep respect for others. Pity is an emotion; compassion is a connection. Compassion sees the other as equal. Compassion happens when we care for another person enough to make his or her problems our own.

Why do you decry the world we live in? There are good people in it. Isn't muddle a better breeding ground for kindliness and individuality than a world order that's imposed, a world order that may be right today and wrong tomorrow? I would rather have a world of kindly, faulty, human beings, than a world of superior robots who've said goodbye to pity and understanding and sympathy.

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.

Wisdom without Christ brings bitterness; with Christ it brings compassion.

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

You will achieve what you want to achieve, only if you can cope with the theory of altruism.

A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity.

All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did.

You have been “self-pitying” for long years now and things don’t seem to improve. Just try a few days of good self-esteeming” and you’ll see things taking a better shape!

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.

All you who are in love Aye and can not remove it I pity the pain that you endure. For experience lets me know That your hearts are filled with woe It's a woe that no mortal can cure. -"the Curragh of Kildare

And the more pity that great folk should have count'nance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than their even-Christen.

An ounce of help is worth more than a pound of pity any day.

And it's a pity too that I've no right to open your letters. I hope you don't get many, or my conscience will give me no peace.

Are we not to pity and supply the poor, though they have no relation to us? No relation? That cannot be. The Gospel styles them all our brethren.

Are you sure self-pity is a luxury you can afford, Jack?

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.

Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt.

. . . a pity I never had children. But you're wrong. . . . I have . . . thousands of them . . . thousands of them . . . and all boys!

Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise

Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis.

But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity). [Fr., Mais un pripon d'enfant (cet age est sans pitie).

A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad.

Charity isn't about pity, it is about love.

But the day I can't shrug off a twinge of self-pity, is the day I'm washed up for keeps.

Do I have my days when I've thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely.

Christianity is called the religion of pity.

Decoration is asked to be 'merely' pleasing, 'merely' embellishing, and the 'functional' logic of Modernism leaves no room, apparently, for such 'mereness.' This is part of the pity of Modernism, one of the sacrifices it enjoins.

Divine punishment is at once followed by Divine pity.

For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.

Even your pity is like a blast of wind and the words you speak would strip a tree of its blossoms.

Generosity is the accompaniment of high birth; pity and gratitude are its attendants.

Good steel bends, but never breaks. Good steel stays always sharp and ready. Good steel feels no pain, no pity, and above all, no remorse

Great God, have pity on the wicked, for thou didst everything for the good, when thou madest them good!

Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn't do more.

Gratitude is a dialysis of sorts... it flushes the self-pity out of our systems.

Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated.

Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous.

Guilt stirs me, but only to self-pity.

How’s Her Royal Bitchiness?” “Alive.” “Pity.

He Who is wrapped in purple robes, With planets in His care, Had pity on the least of things Asleep upon a chair.

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.

I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition.

Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.

I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else.

If I gave you a pity position it wouldn't be in my office.