Best 305 quotes in «pity quotes» category

The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.

The cow to me is a sermon on pity.

The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

There is a kind of misguided pity that deals gently with false teachers at the expense of their victims.

There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.

The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.

Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone.

The Justice of today is born of yesterday's pity.

The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

The teeth of self-pity had gnawed away her essential self.

There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.

The unfortunate do not pity the unfortunate.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to resolve themselves to spoiling existence for him, and thus to being his misfortune; out of pity, they would have to--become evil!

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy.

The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity.

Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.

The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity.

This train of thought was heading straight for Pity City, and she wanted to get off.

To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.

We are so not breaking out the violins and pity partying.

...trade the life of self pity, that I was living, for a life of purpose! - Rebekah -

We are not going to win because you have a new head coach, any more than you are going to fix a flat tire by changing the driver. We will win the minute all of us get rid of excuses as to why we can't win and stop wallowing in self-pity.

We pity people too often for the wrong reasons.

Were't not for laughing, I should pity him.

We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.

What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree.

We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there is an accompanying surge in those hostile sensations.

What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws!

What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.

What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

What is pity but the vice of kindness.

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

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.

When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.

After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness,—an American, a Negro... two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, — this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self.

AGAMEMNÔN. Il n’est pas facile à un roi d’être pieux. ODYSSEUS. Mais les rois peuvent obéir aux amis qui les conseillent bien.

What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest.

Yet, ironically, it is her very wretchedness that makes me pity her so. I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't know what to do!

You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance," Domingo said.

A man could love only what he respected, not pitied.

Alas, where in the world have there been greater follies than with the compassionate? And what in the world has caused more suffering than the follies of the compassionate? Woe to all lovers who cannot surmount pity! Thus spoke the Devil to me once: Even God has his Hell: it is his love for man. And I lately heard him say these words: God is dead; God has died of his pity for man.

As so many commitments demand your time Or your shut-eye important be, Your attraction to me must in some way lack, Such a pity to spend time on thee.

A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.

Before you pity yourself, take a great deal closer look at others, and then decide with who you would or could change places and what sacrifice of your nature you would be prepared to make in order to do so.

Beware pride; it would have us seek revenge from those most deserving of our pity.

But not because I hate being pitied. I do, but it's more than that. When people pity, it's like they honestly don't realize the exact same thing's coming for them. And I feel embarrassed and uncomfortable and have to pity them, because, like, do you not realize it's always someone's turn? You haven't noticed everyone gets a few blows that seem so big you can't survive them? And then here is this person looking at you and dramatically murmuring, I'm sorry for your loss. And you have to look at them and hope your eyes aren't saying, Don't be too sorry. You're next. You have to spend all this energy making your face say, Yes it's horrible, and extremely rare. I can't believe I was the person who lost my father. You certainly won't lost anyone. You'll die first, out of everyone you love, on the eve of your hundredth birthday.