Pity Quotes

Pity the poor millionaire. He'll never know the thrill of paying that final installment.

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

Self-pity is the most negative quality of the human spirit. Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter.

Why, this Satan’s drink is so delicious it would be a pity to let the infidels have exclusive use of it. We shall fool Satan by baptizing it and making it a truly Christian beverage.

You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity and the sour sound of whining.

The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.

What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!

It seems a pity, but I do not think that I can write more. For God's sake look after our people.

It's a pity we don't whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading.

Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.

Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them the easy prey - and that is what all who suffer are - is enchanting.

Sensual excess drives out pity in man.

We work with the people not out of pity but out of respect for their potential for growth and development, both as individuals and as communities.

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

Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?

Suffering... We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.

Holidays - Have no pity.

Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears.

To be without pity for other mens falls, is an evident sign that we shall fall ourselves shortly.

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

I once read about a guy who lost his arms in a fire. The nurse took pity on him and gave him a hand job. I don't even get that.

It is a pity that the words "spiritual life" were ever invented, for they have caused so much confusion. For, in truth, there is only life-everyday life-which is simply what is at every moment.

Pity. It seems determined to follow me everywhere.

The state of your heart dictates whether you harbor a grudge or give grace, seek self-pity or seek Christ, drink human misery or taste God's mercy.

Self-pity is, perhaps, the least becoming of all emotions, and we often indulge in it only beause we are too exhausted to resist.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn.

A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.

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.

If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a human being. I would just as soon be a rattlesnake.

Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.

Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers. (excerpt from 'The Garrett')

I see filmmaking as a business and pity anyone who regards it as an art form.

I think the French have come to grips with their past, and that was true up until about - until the '70s. And then there were things like the film "The Sorrow And The Pity."

A fool is in himself the object of pity, until he is flattered.

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.

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

Suffering also has its worth. Through sorrow, pride is driven out And pity felt for those who wander in samsara; Evil is avoided, goodness seems delightful.

It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only because they are alive.

I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude.

I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.

All pity choked with custom of fell deeds.