Pitiable Quotes

You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.

I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

I think it's ill-advised to attribute pathologies to healthy people. It doesn't help normal, healthy, thriving children to be viewed as pitiable and fragile.