Top 1200 Pity Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

I pity those who have no taste for reading.

Pity makes suffering contagious.

It is a pity we do not die when our lives are finished.

Pity is always twinged with disgust.

Pity is woman's sweetest charm.

Mercy, Pity, Peace Is the world's release.

Pity is exhaustible. What a terrible discovery!

Mercy, pity, and peace, Are the world's release.

Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil

I pity the fool who just gives up.

Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.

Self-pity does not appreciate pedantry.

I pity the shrimp that matches wits with you Jeeves

To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.

The cow to me is a sermon on pity.

self-pity is better than none.

Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.

Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.

Self-pity shortens your life.

The Justice of today is born of yesterday's pity.

I never wanted anyone's pity.

It is a pity we can't escape from life when we are young.

Christianity is called the religion of pity.

Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.

All pity choked with custom of fell deeds.

God pity the poor novelist.

Youth, what a pity to waste it on the young.

It is better to arouse envy than pity.

What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint.

Didn't you tie the mittens on her feet (Wednesday Evening's) extra special nice? Yes--she is an extra special nice pigeon. She cries for pity when she wants pity. And she shuts her eyes when she doesn't want to look at you. And if you look deep in her eyes when her eyes are open you will see lights there exactly like the lights on the pastures and the meadows when the mist is drifting on a Wednesday evening just between the twilight and gloaming.

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!

Pity and friendship seek different habitations.

But mostly, I remembered what I’ve always believed. What my mom taught me. That while some things are just plain awful, most things in life can be seen either tragic or comic. And it’s your choice. Is life a big, long, tiresome slog from sadness to regret to guilt to resentment to self-pity? Or is life weird, outrageous, bizarre, ironic, and just stupid? Gotta go with stupid. It’s not the easy way out. Self pity is the easiest thing in the world. Finding the humor, the irony, the slight justification for a skewed, skeptical optimism. That’s tough. - Marco, Animorphs #35: The Proposal

Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

The firm basis of government is justice, not pity.

I learn to pity woes so like my own.

I do pity unlearned gentlemen on a rainy day.

I pity anybody who has to spend a day with me.

Almost all women have hearts full of pity.

What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.

Pity is a benign form of abuse.

Self-pity is the simplest luxury.

Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye.

Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.

The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity.

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.

As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.

Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.

No it isn't very pretty, what a town without pity can do.

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.

Pity is easy, but it is difficult to care.

Soft pity enters an iron gate.

Pity swells the tide of love.

Pity is something only weakness wants.