Pity Quotes

“Sometimes, a weak...

“Sometimes, a weak act of pity is the deepest act of cruelty.”
📅︎ Mar 06
🚨︎ report

"What a pity, when Christopher C...

"What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it." — Margot Asquith
📅︎ Oct 22
🚨︎ report

If you allow yourself to w...

If you allow yourself to wallow in self-pity ,it'll be an endless nightmare - someone
📅︎ Oct 22
🚨︎ report

"It was such a lovely da...

"It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up." — W. Somerset Maugham
📅︎ Aug 29
🚨︎ report

I wasn't lonely. I experienced no self-p...

I wasn't lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning. -Charles Bukowski
📅︎ Mar 23
🚨︎ report

"Whenever you are angry, take a beautiful object in your house and smash it to pieces. ...

"Whenever you are angry, take a beautiful object in your house and smash it to pieces. The pity you feel for what you have done is silly compared to what you are doing to your mind: taking a sacred moment to be alive and desecrating it by being angry.” --Kamand Kojouri
📅︎ Jun 15
🚨︎ report

"She dreams on him that has forgot her love; You dote on her that ca...

"She dreams on him that has forgot her love; You dote on her that cares not for your love. 'Tis pity love should be so contrary; And thinking on it makes me cry "alas"! - William Shakespeare, Gentleman of Verona
📅︎ Jun 28
🚨︎ report

“If you must be affected by other people’s...

“If you must be affected by other people’s misfortunes, show them pity instead of contempt. Drop this readiness to hate.” - Epictetus
📅︎ Feb 27
🚨︎ report

Ice-cream is exquis...

Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal. - Voltaire
📅︎ Feb 10
🚨︎ report

“It was such a lovely da...

“It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.” - W. Somerset Maugham
📅︎ Feb 26
🚨︎ report

"Let a man accept h...

"Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears." - Euripides
📅︎ Dec 09
🚨︎ report

One grows out of...

One grows out of pity when it’s useless ~ Albert Camus
📅︎ Sep 16
🚨︎ report

"Eventually I confess to a friend some details about my weeping - its intensity, its freq...

"Eventually I confess to a friend some details about my weeping - its intensity, its frequency. She says (kindly) that she thinks we sometimes weep in front of a mirror not to inflame self-pity, but because we want to feel witnessed in our despair." — Maggie Nelson, ‘Bluets’
📅︎ Dec 06
🚨︎ report

“Pity the nation divided into fragments, e...

“Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.” -- Kahlil Gibran) (from the poem “Pity the Nation”)
📅︎ Nov 11
🚨︎ report

"I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that ...

"I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process." -23rd President Benjamin Harrison
📅︎ Jun 06
🚨︎ report

Pity a man in familiar ...

Pity a man in familiar places who yet feels like a stranger - Peter Griffin
📅︎ Mar 26
🚨︎ report

“It's my opinion, with some people, just knowing they are alone, living inside of thei...

“It's my opinion, with some people, just knowing they are alone, living inside of their own miserable, self hating, dysfunctional mind, with their own immature, insecure, self pitying self is its own revenge. Their existence is their karma.” ― Colleen Truscott Fry
📅︎ Jul 17
🚨︎ report

"Your ideas are terrifying and your hearts are faint. Your acts of pit...

"Your ideas are terrifying and your hearts are faint. Your acts of pity and cruelty are absurd, committed with no calm, as if they were irresistable. Finally, you fear blood more and more. Blood and time"- Paul Valéry
📅︎ May 30
🚨︎ report

"Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity...

"Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and above all, those who live without love." -Albus Dumbldore
📅︎ Mar 05
🚨︎ report

“You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill...

“You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it.” -Christopher Hitchens
📅︎ May 05
🚨︎ report

"Whenever we show ...

"Whenever we show pity, we empty our souls." -Andrei Tarkovsky
📅︎ Jul 06
🚨︎ report

"Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must ...

"Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world - making the most of one's best." ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
📅︎ Nov 22
🚨︎ report

Pity the selfishness of lover...

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible. Elizabeth Bowen
📅︎ Dec 17
🚨︎ report

‎"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else e...

‎"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else." - Henry Ward Beecher
📅︎ Apr 28
🚨︎ report

[OC] Have pity ...

[OC] Have pity towards none, yet empathy towards all.
📅︎ Feb 09
🚨︎ report

“The more pity that fools may not...

“The more pity that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.” —Touchstone in As You Like It
📅︎ Mar 20
🚨︎ report

"We should pity the human race. We seek approval from ...

"We should pity the human race. We seek approval from those around us, and yet we believe anyone who disagrees with our limited opinions deserves our hate and abuse." -Me
📅︎ Apr 19
🚨︎ report

"You know, sometimes I’m overcome with the d...

"You know, sometimes I’m overcome with the disease of self-pity or bitterness" - Wallace Shawn, about people yelling "inconceivable" at him.
📅︎ Sep 23
🚨︎ report

"For in prosperity prayers seem but a mere assemblage of words, until...

"For in prosperity prayers seem but a mere assemblage of words, until the day when misfortune comes to explain to the unhappy sufferer the sublime language by which he invokes the pity of heaven."- Alexandre Dumas
📅︎ Jul 30
🚨︎ report

"It's a mistake to...

"It's a mistake to confuse pity with love." -Stanley Kubrick
📅︎ Oct 24
🚨︎ report

This is dreadful. Not only the suffering and death of animals but that man suppresses in...

This is dreadful. Not only the suffering and death of animals but that man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity---that of sympathy and pity towards living creatures like himself. and by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. ----Tolstoy
📅︎ Dec 02
🚨︎ report

"I want nothing more than to be a bayonet; a bayonet wielded by the hand of God. I would ha...

"I want nothing more than to be a bayonet; a bayonet wielded by the hand of God. I would have been happy to have been born a storm, or a divine threat; a mighty explosion or even a terrible hurricane. A divine force of nature without a heart or pity." -Paladin Alexander Anderson
📅︎ Nov 15
🚨︎ report

"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have gover...

"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.” -Bertrand Russell
📅︎ Sep 07
🚨︎ report

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs bu...

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. - Alexander Pope (An Essay on Man)
📅︎ May 21
🚨︎ report

"Ice-cream is exquis...

"Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal." - Voltaire
📅︎ Aug 01
🚨︎ report

"Swearing’s my release. It’s the one weapon...

"Swearing’s my release. It’s the one weapon I have to defend myself against destiny when it elects to strike without pity." Andrea Pirlo
📅︎ Dec 01
🚨︎ report

"I pity the man who is stuck ...

"I pity the man who is stuck in the web of accumulating possessions. I envy the man who isn't."
📅︎ Jun 01
🚨︎ report

"I am the god! I am the victim! Praise me! Pity me! You are like me, b...

"I am the god! I am the victim! Praise me! Pity me! You are like me, but less effective! Please give your shoes to computer god. I will steal your shoes. There isn't anything strange about my behavior." - Tardous Prime
📅︎ Mar 16
🚨︎ report

"There is nothing that will cripp...

"There is nothing that will cripple creative power quicker than the self-pity habit." -Orison Swett Marden
📅︎ Sep 07
🚨︎ report

'Don't pity t...

'Don't pity the dead Harry, pity the living'
📅︎ Jun 08
🚨︎ report

Regarding a love of life: "I might have asked some of it from her, neatly wrapped and read...

Regarding a love of life: "I might have asked some of it from her, neatly wrapped and ready for home cooking and digestion, but I could never have got it -- not if I’d waited around for a thousand hours with the tin cup of self-pity." From "The Crack-Up", by F. Scott Fitzgerald
📅︎ Mar 11
🚨︎ report

"Pity me that the heart is slow t...

"Pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn" Edna St. Vincent Millay
📅︎ Jan 06
🚨︎ report

Related Keywords