Pity Quotes

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

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

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.

I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead.

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.

It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero.

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

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.

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.

It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.

In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.

I understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don't want pity or random advice.

Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Pity is treason.

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.