Top 167 Pitiful Quotes & Sayings

Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.

PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.

The most pitiful human ailment is a birdseed heart.

We've all got our own brand of problems. You can be pitiful or powerful. Take your pick.

I think Americans are so poor it's pitiful, because you don't understand the natural world at all.

I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn't mind being pitied. If you love me, pity me. The human state is pitiable: born to die, capable of so much, accomplishing so little; killing instead of creating, destroying instead of building, hating instead of loving. Pitiful, pitiful.

Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious.

I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'

And lips say “God be pitiful,” Who ne'er said “God be praised.”

Believers must persevere in prayer that they may see clearly their own pitiful state and understand the indwelling, working, and demands of the Holy Spirit.

I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.

Complaint is. more contemptible than pitiful.

The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision.

Very few people are happy in this world. Most are miserable. Even in their so-called happiness, they are unhappy; it is so short of ecstasy, of god-consciousness; it's almost pitiful.

now I am capable of youth, but not capable of few years - that is the pitiful thing.

Love, as wonderful and horrible as it is, has at its center a kind of pitiful humor.

Isn't my fur stole pitiful? How unsuccessful can a girl look? People think I'm wearing anchovies. The worst of it is, I trapped these under my own sink.

There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.

All great humorists are sad... I cannot help seeing beyond the tinsel of humour, and recognising the pitiful basis of jest - the world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

Compared to the spoken word, a picture is a pitiful thing, indeed.

In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it.

I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated, we need a Constitutional amendment that states that marriage is between a man and a woman.

Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks.

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers.

It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!

Leaders goal: Don't be afraid of vulnerability & transparency, (without being pitiful). People respond to authenticity.

Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful.

An atheist waving a cross at a vampire was a truly pitiful sight.

My life is a pitiful, mechanical thing without a past, like a little wind-up car, ready to run in any direction someone points me.

It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.

There is nothing more pitiful than a ready and willing mind but an incapable body.

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.

Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you didn't.

Ignorance is pitiful! If you are ignorant and stupid, you are sick - white, black, green, I don't care.

I lay my head on the railroad track, waitin' on the Double E. But the train don't run by here no more, poor, poor, pitiful me.

The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding.

The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.

A face painted in a picture gives a pitiful parody of life. . . but a painted surface lives.

There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self.

Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?

People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.

The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

You can't be pitiful AND powerful.

You can be pitiful, or you can be powerful, but you can't be both

When you see fair hair Be pitiful.

In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.

Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.

Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are.

Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.

I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.

You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into the dustbin of history!

I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.

The cow is an exceptionally loving and gentle creature. She cries for days when her calf is taken from her. It is a pitiful sound, a pitiful sound.

Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have no time for the pitiful.

Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.

As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.

We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.