Pity Quotes

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

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

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

Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters which may befall ourselves. We assist others,, in order that they may assist us on like occasions; so that the services we offer to the unfortunate are in reality so many anticipated kindnesses to ourselves.

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!

Those who do not complain are never pitied.

Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If I must pity, at least I do not want it known; and if I do pity, it is preferably from a distance.

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

Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity is the shaking voice-- not enough money, not enough love--pity for all of us--it is our grace, walking down the ramp or on the moving sidewalk, sitting in a chair, reading the paper, pity, turning a leaf to the light, arranging a thorn.

Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.

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

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.

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.

There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one day he suffocated through his excessive pity.

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

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

Two things control man's character; Strength and Pity

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

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 feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love.

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

I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone.

Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.

A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad.

The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.

Soft pity enters an iron gate.

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

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?

The cow to me is a sermon on pity.

Pity makes suffering contagious.

To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most disastrous consequences, fatally stupid- almost as stupid as a wish to abolish bad weather - out of pity for the poor.

If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.

It is important not to allow ourselves to be put off by the magnitude of others' suffering. The misery of millions is not a cause for pity. Rather it is a cause for compassion.

Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others. It is a delicate foresight of the troubles into which we may fall.

If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.

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 person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.

... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!

A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity.

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?

What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!' Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need. And he has been well rewarded, Frodo. Be sure that he took so little hurt from the evil, and escaped in the end, because he began his ownership of the Ring so. With Pity.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

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.

You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.

Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Éowyn!

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.

Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated.

Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.

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

The coward is an object to be pitied.

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

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

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.

In extreme danger fear feels no pity.[Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.]

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

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

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

Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.

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

Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in our joy: when others are happy they have nothing to do, they become superfluous and lose their feeling of superiority, and so they easily show their displeasure.