Pitiable Quotes

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.

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.