Pity Quotes

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

A mourner is, perforce, a person with a story. The pity is, how very rarely it gets told.

Compassion and pity are not the same: pity is looking down on someone, feeling sorry for them and offering nothing; compassion is seeing their pain and offering them understanding.

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.

When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself included.

Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity.

I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means of transport, although that end is what we have all ostensibly been striving to attain.

A warrior knows that he is only a man. His only regret is that his life is so short that he can't grab onto all the things he would like to. But for him, this is not an issue; it's only a pity.

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

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough Without ever having felt sorry for itself.

Have pity on a dinosaur.

Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.

Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.

Pity arises when we are sorry for someone.Compassion is when we understand and help wisely.

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

Shake off the self-pity, shake off the defeat and get ready for God to do something new. He is going to pay you back for every injustice.

Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because they are afraid that someone has already done so better than they could.

It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.

What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.

Pity for him who one day looks uponhis inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

In the eyes of mercy, no one should have hateful thoughts. Feel pity for the man who is even more at fault. The area and size of mercy is limitless.

Today is like yesterday and tomorrow will be the same as today. God, help us! Take pity of us!

What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.

If you looked down to the bottom of my soul, you would understand fully the source of my longing and – pity me. Even the open, transparent lake has its unknown depths, which no divers know.

Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

Gather up your pity and turn it to ambition.

Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

What you are comes to you.

Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.

I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.

Not only must a warrior be strong with his bow, but he must have a heart full of pity for all living creatures.

Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that would be eliminated from schools, too?

You can’t be disturbed by anything. There’s no emotion involved. You can’t feel sorrow, you can’t feel pity, there’s nothing you feel. The job has to be done.

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.

Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.

Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers.

Do not pity the dead, Harry.

It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.

If it takes a hundred years, it will be a pity, but I will not cease to work for it as long as I live.

If you see a man who has sinned and you do not pity him, the grace of God will leave you. Whoever curses bad people, and does not pray for them, will never come to know the grace of God.

Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.

I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.

The Lord looks on his servants with pity and not with blame. In God's sight we do not fall; in our sight, we do not stand. Both of these are true, but the deeper insight belongs to God.