A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
Karl Philipp Moritz

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
Oliver Goldsmith

Better to be disliked than pitied.
Abba Eban

Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
Lord Chesterfield

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
Herodotus

If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.
Rockwell Kent

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

The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
Jane Austen

Those who do not complain are never pitied.
Jane Austen

When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.
John Woolman

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
Kurt Vonnegut