Pity famous quotes

One grows out of pity when it's useless.
-- Albert Camus

#Useless #Pity #Grows

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

#Love #Separation #Pity

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity
-- Aleksandar Hemon

#Self #Talking #Pity

nothing is so binding as pity.
-- Alice Tisdale Hobart

#Pity

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me,and drench me in loneliness.
-- Amy Lowell

#Loneliness #Moon #Pity

He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.
-- Anais Nin

#Ridiculous #Pity #Humiliating

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
-- Andre Maurois

#Self #Self Pity #Pity

The memory of the aged becomes clearer and clearer with time. It has no pity.
-- Andrea Camilleri

#Memories #Pity

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.
-- Anita Brookner

#Women #Home #Pity

I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs
-- Anita Roddick

#Children #Empathy #Pity

How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!
-- Ann Radcliffe

#Humanity #Might #Pity

Pity's tears are spontaneous.
-- Anna Cora Mowatt

#Tears #Pity #Spontaneous

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
-- Anne Carson

#Mother #Ocean #Pity

In general, indulgence for those we know is rarer than pity for those we know not.
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Pity #Clemency #Indulgence

Pity. It seems determined to follow me everywhere.
-- Ari Marmell

#Determined #Pity #Follow Me

They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
-- Arthur Helps

#Pity #Poor #Relation

Pity is like eating mustard without beef.
-- Augustus Hare

#Beef #Eating #Pity

Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.
-- Ayn Rand

#Guilty #Pity #Innocent

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Reading #Rainy Day #Pity

You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
-- Bernard Malamud

#Men #Surprise #Pity

Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.
-- Bolesław Prus

#Emotion #Pity

Pity makes a thin drink, indeed.
-- Caroline Pafford Miller

#Pity #Drink

Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Tree #Pity #Form

I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.
-- Charles Bukowski

#Lonely #Self #Pity

An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single.
-- Charlotte Bingham

#Faces #Married #Pity

Just listen to your instincts. Don't talk to someone or start a relationship out of pity.
-- Chris Bosh

#Pity #Instinct #Just Listen

Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn't the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn't deserve my own pity.
-- Chris Cleave

#Cry #Pity #Understood

A mourner is, perforce, a person with a story. The pity is, how very rarely it gets told.
-- Christian McEwen

#Grief #Stories #Pity

Yet, ironically, it is her very wretchedness that makes me pity her so. I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't know what to do!
-- Christopher Pike

#Pity

What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest.
-- Claude Monet

#Men #Painting #Pity

Gather up your pity and turn it to ambition.
-- Coolio

#Inspirational #Ambition #Pity

one pities most those who loved, and still died. Only those who love, dread death.
-- Craig L. Rice

#Pity #Dread #Stills

Pity is always twinged with disgust.
-- Daniel Quinn

#Pity #Disgusting

It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are finished. Mrs. Miracle
-- Debbie Macomber

#Miracle #Self Pity #Pity

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
-- Dorothy Parker

#Women #Irritation #Pity

A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#Mad #Sometimes #Pity

I pity people who do not care for Society. They are poorer for the oblation they do not make.
-- Elizabeth Bowen

#People #Care #Pity

What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree...
-- Elizabeth George Speare

#Children #Tree #Pity

Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis.
-- Eloise Jarvis McGraw

#Pity

Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why do I feel such anguished pity when I see one of these creatures coming and going, sniffing everyone, frightened, despairing of even finding its master?
-- Emile Zola

#Dog #Heart #Pity

Pity is exhaustible. What a terrible discovery!
-- Enid Bagnold

#Discovery #Pity #Terrible

Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.
-- Eugene H. Peterson

#Life Changing #Suffering #Pity

Holidays - Have no pity.
-- Eugenio Montale

#Holiday #Pity

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
-- F. H. Bradley

#Men #Wife #Pity

Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.
-- Fanny Fern

#Envy #Gold #Pity

Being a retired major looks like an ideal thing to me. What a pity you couldn't eternally have been just a retired major.
-- Fernando Pessoa

#Looks #Pity #Retired

Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest.
-- Francis Beaumont

#Path #Companionship #Pity

pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music.
-- Francoise Sagan

#Uplifting #Military #Pity

Did I kill him?” I said. “No, miss,” said Robert. “Pity.
-- Franny Billingsley

#Missing #Pity #Said

Pity makes suffering contagious.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

#Suffering #Pity #Contagious

From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.
-- G. I. Gurdjieff

#Compassion #Realizing #Pity

We are so not breaking out the violins and pity partying.
-- Gena Showalter

#Party #Violin #Pity

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

#Reality #Towns #Pity

The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity.
-- George Eliot

#Lips #Pity #Divine

Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor wretches, just saved from shipwreck. Can we feel anything but awe and pity when we see a fellow-passenger swallowed by the waves?
-- George Eliot

#Hands #Punishment #Pity

Contempt mates well with pity.
-- Gloria Naylor

#Disrespect #Pity #Mates

It's a pity we don't whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading.
-- Halldór Laxness

#Bird #Pity #Mislead

Have pity on a dinosaur.
-- Hank Williams, Jr.

#Dinosaurs #Politics #Pity

Pity and friendship seek different habitations.
-- Helen Hunt

#Different #Pity

There are those without decency who must be fought without hesitation, without pity.
-- Henri

#Pity #Hesitation #Decency

I keep remembering — I keep remembering. My heart has no pity on me.
-- Henri Barbusse

#Heart #Remember #Pity

A woman's pity often opens the door to love.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Doors #Pity

I see filmmaking as a business and pity anyone who regards it as an art form.
-- Herschell Gordon Lewis

#Art #Pity #Form

There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.
-- Honore de Balzac

#Envy #Mediocrity #Pity

Pity is woman's sweetest charm.
-- Honore de Balzac

#Pity #Charm #Sweetest

No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.
-- Honore de Balzac

#Society #Pity #Victim

I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.
-- Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

#Teaching #Pity

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
-- Ivan Turgenev

#Feelings #Pity #Good Feeling

Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Éowyn!
-- J. R. R. Tolkien

#Heart #Pity #Gentle

When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me
-- Jacqueline Carey

#Pity #Cruelty #Casts

Love shouldn't make a beggar of one. I wouldn't want love if I had to beg for it, to barter or qualify it. And I should despise it if anyone ever begged for my love. Love is something that must be given -- it can't be bought with words or pity, or even reason.
-- Jacqueline Susann

#Love Is #Want #Pity

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

#Pity

Those who are too slow to be intelligent deserve our patience, those who are too quick, our pity.
-- James Richardson

#Intelligent #Pity #Deserve

Those who do not complain are never pitied.
-- Jane Austen

#Complaining #Pity #Complaints

When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.
-- Jean Rostand

#Inspirational #Pity #Young

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
-- Jean-Luc Godard

#Ideas #Cinema #Pity

I'm going to do my thing and if you react a certain way - with pity or with anger - that's up to you.
-- Jennifer Lawrence

#Way #Pity #Certain

Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!
-- Jerry Lewis

#House #Want #Pity

Pity, unlike hate, can be boxed and put away.
-- Jessie Burton

#Hate #Pity

Self-pity shortens your life ...
-- Joan Rivers

#Self #Self Pity #Pity

Of all the well-meant emotions pity is the cruelest to share.
-- Joan Slonczewski

#Emotion #Pity #Share

Good steel bends, but never breaks. Good steel stays always sharp and ready. Good steel feels no pain, no pity, and above all, no remorse
-- Joe Abercrombie

#Pain #Steel #Pity

Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt.
-- John Godfrey Saxe

#Degenerates #Human Nature #Pity

Sounded to me like he had a pretty good idea what he was saying," Van replied, with surprisingly little anger. "It's a pity he had to overintellectualize like that. He did such good work, and then he had to go and intellectualize it.
-- Jonathan Franzen

#Ideas #Littles #Pity

But the day I can't shrug off a twinge of self-pity, is the day I'm washed up for keeps.
-- Jonathan Lethem

#Self #Self Pity #Pity

Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's.
-- Jonathan Tropper

#Pity #Fart

Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.
-- Joseph Addison

#Humanity #Pity #Incitement

Nothing but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life.
-- Joseph Henry

#Infinite #Pity #Pathos

All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did.
-- Josephine Hart

#People #Survival #Pity

Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.
-- Josh Billings

#Cost #Pity

Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing.
-- Josh Billings

#Cost #Pity

In extreme danger fear feels no pity. [Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.]
-- Julius Caesar

#Fear #Pity #Danger

It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have power.
-- Kate Horsley

#Men #Noble #Pity

It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation.
-- Katharine Whitehorn

#Men #Birth #Pity

We pity people too often for the wrong reasons.
-- Katherine Anne Porter

#People #Pity #Reason

This train of thought was heading straight for Pity City, and she wanted to get off.
-- Lauren Kate

#Cities #Pity #Wanted

It’s hard to feel hurt or frightened when you’re flooded with pity.
-- Lindy West

#Hurt #Pity #Frightened

No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man.
-- Louisa May Alcott

#Men #Guilt #Pity

an ounce of help is worth more than a pound of pity any day ...
-- Louise Jordan Miln

#Pounds #Helping #Pity

Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

#Weakness #Wickedness #Pity