Best 305 quotes in «pity quotes» category

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.

The unfortunate do not pity the unfortunate.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

We pity people too often for the wrong reasons.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

What is pity but the vice of kindness.

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.

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

As a kid my heart would break for the villains.

A sight to touch e’en hatred’s self with pity.

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.

But you will not spare a drop of pity because I am rich? We have death in our gilded courts, too. We have disease and cruelty, and not a breath of air or freedom. You cannot say our lives are easy, any more than I can say yours is. They are lives, and so they are HORRID!

By Allah, how _thankful_ he is (_yes, madam, one moment, madam_), how _gladdened_ by the thought that Magid, Magid at least, will, in a matter of four hours, be flying east from this place and its demands, its constant cravings, this place where there exists neither patience nor pity, where the people want what they want _now_, right now (_We've been waiting twenty minutes for the vegetables_), expecting their lovers, their children, their friends, and even their gods to arrive at little cost and in little time, just as table ten expect their tandoori prawns. . . .

Compassion is often confused with pity. But when we pity someone, we see ourselves in a superior position. The immeasurable attitude of compassion arises from the recognition of our shared humanity.

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Creative nihilism, aggressive pity, total misanthropy.