Best Pity Quotes

Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one’s time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors.

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

If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Pity is woman’s sweetest charm.

What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.

When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.

If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.

Gratitude is a dialysis of sorts… it flushes the self-pity out of our systems.

A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him.

When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.

A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.

Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner, there ain’t no hiding place from the Father of Creation.

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

Have pity on a dinosaur.

For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.

Many people have said to me, What a pity you had such a big family to raise. Think of the novels and the short stories and the poems you never had time to write because of that. And I looked at my children and I said, These are my poems, these are my stories.

Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the objects of our pity , then of our wisdom , ultimately of our coercion.

It’s time to blow out the candles on the pity party cake.

Time to stop crying, time to get her act together and do something. Time to move beyond the pity party.

Possibly, over the course of time, the brain capacity of homo sapiens will have made such great progress, that complications as contained in this game can be fathomed instantly with a shrug and a smile. Then, not only will the game of chess have ceased to exist, but also will the remembrance of frequently missed objectives elicit pity, as a reaction to the shortcomings of a lower organized form of life.

As nice as some of the booths are, it’s not the same thing. It’s a pity for young artists, because one of the things that a younger artist can look forward to is an emerging dealer who has a space that they can take over and build whatever will suit whatever aesthetic they find themselves in. In an art fair, you turn yourself into an object.

There is a passion of reverence, almost of pity, mingling with the love of an honest man for a pure girl, which makes it the most exquisite, perhaps, of all human sentiments.

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can’t be learnt in lecture halls.

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

An ounce of help is worth more than a pound of pity any day.

It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another’s happiness and their own.

God pity us that after years of writing, using mountains of paper and rivers of ink, exhausting flashy terminology about the biggest revival meetings in history, we are still faced with gross corruption in every nation, as well as with the most prayerless church age since Pentecost.

In my own prejudice.. I would have of a poet…whose worlds would not be too esoteric..fond of talking….capable of pity and laughter..appreciative of womem..involved in personal relationships…susceptible to physical impressions

If you can once engage people’s pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

Boulez’s only concern is with power. He lost the leadership of the avant-guard more than ten years ago to Stockhausen. Now others have moved in. With the need for power, where was he to go? So he chose to be a conductor. He is a wonderful musician, a wonderful intelligence. It’s a pity there is no humanity there. Does he have sex? I think not. When men have no sex, they go after power in this big, obsessive way.

I had to work in one of the most beautiful ski resorts in the world for almost three weeks. Pity me.

If the impure and the unjust, the drunkard and the licentious, are loathsome to us, what must be the infinite loathing of an infinitely pure Spirit for those who are worldly and selfish, licentious and cruel, ambitious and animal! But with this great loathing is a great pity. And the pity conquers the loathing, appeases it, satisfies it, is reconciled with it, only as it redeems the sinner from his loathsomeness, lifts him up from his degradation, brings him to truth and purity, to love and righteousness; for only thus is he or can he be brought to God.