Pity Quotes

“Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity.”

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

“Soft pity enters an iron gate.”

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

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

“She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I lov'd her that she did pity them”

“The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.”

“There is no creature loves me;And if I die, no soul will pity me.”

“No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.”

“The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don't bring presents.”

“There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.”

“While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of love.”

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

“These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow.”

“I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has a right to the kindness and pity of that which is strong. In the relations of man with the animals...there is a great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to humans ethics. Are there not here unsounded depths for the thinker? Is one to think oneself mad because one has the sentiment of universal pity in one's heart?”

“The coward is an object to be pitied.”

“Two things control man's character; Strength and Pity”

“Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary and broken of heart.”

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

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

“Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to the biggest dance of the year. Empathy is what I do to you when you judge me. Envy is having pity on yourself. Can you discern the rest for yourself?”

“In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.”

“The cow to me is a sermon on 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!”

“If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into the home of the unhappy and the needy. Perhaps even in the famous mother-love there is a good deal of curiosity.”